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April 2nd 07, 03:20 AM
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External Hard Drive Problem
Hey, I looked on here but couldn't find a definite answer about my specific
problem. I just hooked my usb external hard drive up to my new laptop, but whenever i try to access it, i get a message saying i must format the disk before i can use it. Surely there must be a way around this? I don't really have a way to format it since all of my documents are on there. Any help would be appreciated 
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April 2nd 07, 03:08 PM
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External Hard Drive Problem
If you go into disk management, can you see the drive?
Is the drive Healthy? "Andy G" Andy wrote in message ... Hey, I looked on here but couldn't find a definite answer about my specific problem. I just hooked my usb external hard drive up to my new laptop, but whenever i try to access it, i get a message saying i must format the disk before i can use it. Surely there must be a way around this? I don't really have a way to format it since all of my documents are on there. Any help would be appreciated
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April 2nd 07, 05:21 PM
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External Hard Drive Problem
"Andy G" Andy wrote in message
... Hey, I looked on here but couldn't find a definite answer about my specific problem. I just hooked my usb external hard drive up to my new laptop, but whenever i try to access it, i get a message saying i must format the disk before i can use it. Surely there must be a way around this? I don't really have a way to format it since all of my documents are on there. Any help would be appreciated Probably a bootsector of this partition is corrupt. Check it, recover from spare copy or rebuild from scratch using Testdisk. http://www.cgsecurity.org/ http://www.cgsecurity.org/phpwiki/index.php/examples -- M. [Windows - Shell/User MVP] /before private reply change px with pl in my e-mail address/
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April 3rd 07, 11:38 AM
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External Hard Drive Problem
It is not a bootable drive; it is for storage only!
"Michal Kawecki" wrote: "Andy G" Andy wrote in message ... Hey, I looked on here but couldn't find a definite answer about my specific problem. I just hooked my usb external hard drive up to my new laptop, but whenever i try to access it, i get a message saying i must format the disk before i can use it. Surely there must be a way around this? I don't really have a way to format it since all of my documents are on there. Any help would be appreciated Probably a bootsector of this partition is corrupt. Check it, recover from spare copy or rebuild from scratch using Testdisk. http://www.cgsecurity.org/ http://www.cgsecurity.org/phpwiki/index.php/examples -- M. [Windows - Shell/User MVP] /before private reply change px with pl in my e-mail address/
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