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ext HD asking if i want to format
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.
Name: GX1 Man Date: November 1, 2006 at 05:19:57 Pacific
Reply:
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
Reply:
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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