hi i have my photos all saved on a seperate hard drive but when i went to open them it is saying the drive is not formated and do i want to format the drive!!
but this will erase the drive surely thus eraseing all my pics


any help will be much appriciated

jamieExternal drive ? ?
This normally indicates the drive was unplugged prematurely without using Safely Remove Hardware...
You could DLoad and try Recuva....and we'll keep our FINGERS crossed....its an internal drive
i was instaling linux on my main drive which is partitioned and now dual boots, but the drive that has gone BAD is a seperate physical hdd which i use for photos this was partitioned but is now showin as one partition i think the data is still all there but comp can not just recognize it


will give recovera a try though

taIs it a separate physical hard drive and not a partition?

Can you not ACCESS it in both Windows and Linux?IDE or SATA ?its a sata and yes totally seperate drive but internaljust checked and its not avalible in linux either

dont know why i didnt think of it before but just DONE a system restore and it works fine now and all the files are intact.

many many thanks for the quick advise though

jamieNow WOULD be a good time to start devising a regular backup strategy.....i prefer Acronis True Image but there are others...
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