Solve : External Hard drive suddenly unformated?

1.	Solve : External Hard drive suddenly unformated?
Answer» This has happened a few times now. I have a maxtor 200gig hard drive hooked up to xp through a usb port. Everything is fine and then one day I turn on my compurt and I am told the drive is unformated. I know its formated casue it has all my BACK-up info on it and it just worked 2 minutes ago. If I format it I will loose the data. What is going on? is it hardware or Xp, and how do I get the data back? thank you, MoonDownload this&GT;>http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxtor/menuitem.8db0c3d6932ced37294198b091346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Software%20Downloads and test the drive............i have sent truck LOADS of them back.......i would say buy a seagate one........i know is like shutting the door after the horse as gone! did you back up your DATE to disks.......hopefully you have!

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