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XP Drive Unformatted Itself..again!

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Name: Larry
Date: January 23, 2003 at 11:54:18 Pacific
OS: WinXP Pro SP1
CPU/Ram: AMD 800MHZ 256 MB RAM
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Drive went to unformatted TWICE now. The first time didn't matter as I had a backup and tried a little to recover but it didn't work. this time however....i have about 55 GIG of mp3's on the drive with no backup anyway, if anyone has any ideas....please post, and send me an email. My system is

Asus Motherboard
XP Pro SP1 (prior time was no SP)
AMD Duron 800
256MB RAM
Maxtor 80 Gig HD (C: - System & E: - Apps)
Quantum 60 Gig HD (D: - Music)
Maxtor 60 Gig HD (G: - Movies)
Maxtor Ultra ATA 100/133 controller
HP CDRW 9600
Saoundblaster audigy
Nvidia GeForce

FAT32 not ntfs
DOS see's it as unformatted as well

Norton AntiVirus CE 2002 (Latest Version as of DEC 02

Remember this is the second time this has happened (on two different drives) drive just goes to unformatted do you want to format now, and only in XP. I've done PC's for 10yrs and never had this happen until XP.



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Response Number 1
Name: team434
Date: January 23, 2003 at 13:21:50 Pacific
Reply:

What do you mean by "Drive went to unformatted"... :-)

Regards


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Response Number 2
Name: Spooner
Date: January 23, 2003 at 13:56:06 Pacific
Reply:

yea. What you mean Unformatted?
Was this a fresh install?
How long was XP working until this problem
popped up?


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Response Number 3
Name: Max
Date: January 23, 2003 at 17:40:02 Pacific
Reply:

I"m not sure what you mean by unformatted but I'd recommend converting your Fat32 to NTFS. since there are issues with FAt32 limitation on installation up to 32 gig. Maybe it's not related in your case but I'd still convert it to NTFS.

Max


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Response Number 4
Name: www
Date: January 23, 2003 at 22:43:15 Pacific
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Response Number 5
Name: Larry
Date: January 24, 2003 at 07:01:29 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry,
-By unformatted I mean one day it was fine and working and had no issues, the next day when i went to access it, XP error came back with "drive is unformatted do you want to format it now?". Also, in disk manager drive is online, basic, volume is D: (not D:\Music) as it used to be, and is the correct size as well. I do need to correct myself as working on it last night I found if I used a millenium boot disk that I was able to see , access and copy the data to another drive and data is fine however no long file names. I think the MBR is corrupt or no longer ther for XP but DOS is ok.
-No this was not a fresh install, been running for about 6 months, maybe a little less.
-I dont use any power saving or hibernation either. No monitor shutoff, no drive spindowns etc etc.

-I have also posted a reply (#5560) which may give some more info.


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Response Number 6
Name: Larry
Date: January 24, 2003 at 07:02:57 Pacific
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#55560 ...oops, appologies


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