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ext HD asking if i want to format

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Name: bogardfury
Date: October 31, 2006 at 19:23:44 Pacific
OS: windows XP Pro
CPU/Ram: 1 GB
Comment:

Hello, I own a Seagate 160 GB USB External HD. After finishing work in school I shutdown the computer before removing the USB correctly. When I got home and tried to access my files I got

The Disk in Drive F is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?

I got a tone of work on here! Is there anyway to get it back? I didn't reformat yet.



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Name: GX1 Man
Date: November 1, 2006 at 05:19:57 Pacific
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You may want to run a Linux Live CD and copy the files back to an internal hard drive to save them and then format that drive. I'll bet it was formatted as NTFS. Correct?

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Response Number 2
Name: kathe
Date: November 1, 2006 at 18:11:38 Pacific
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Maybe the DBR of the drive F has be damaged. You can try Partition Table Doctor to repair it.


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Response Number 3
Name: bogardfury
Date: November 2, 2006 at 00:13:36 Pacific
Reply:

Thanks Kathe Table Doctor fixed it in a second! <3


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