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Solve : pc suddenly tells me my slave drive needs to be formatted? |
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Answer» My slave drive is a 233 Gb maxtor and has all my files, pics, and music on it. It was working fine, then I turned on my pc and tried to access the drive and I GOT a pop up telling me the drive hasn't been formatted. I closed the window and got a copy of get DATA, a file recovery program. get data found my files on the drive. The drive is listed in device manager, it is enabled, and I can SEE it in my computer and in computer management, xp just doesnt read it as formatted. Does anyone know how to repair this drive so that I can access it? I can't afford to get another drive to use the get data program with. I am running xp pro sp2 everything else is fineWhat file system is listed on that drive in disk management?Slave Drive Tutorialboth drives were formatted with ntfs format, in computer management the slave format is blank. Otherwise the system says the drive is healthy, enabled and working properly. If I try to access it through windows (say my computer) I get a pop up telling me the drive needs to be formatted. Friday I pulled files for a relative and it was working perfectly. Monday when I returned home I had this problem. My 22 yr old daughter was on my space and checked her email over the weekend, but that was the only activity as far as I know. She saves her pics to my C: drive, not my slave. I am running a full VERSION of avast professional with script blocking, mail, IM, P2P shield, Filesystem, and web shield scanners running.Quote get data found my files on the drive You should back them up ASAP. Quote I can't afford to get another drive to use the get data program with. What does this mean? Have you tried any other data recovery tools? Look at these http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk http://www.recuva.com/what that means is I have 200 gigs of data and no room to put it anywhere unless I get another drive. The way I understand it, the software wants to back up the data to a different location so as not to over write anything. I used testdisk, it found the drive info, I replaced the master file table, then testdisk said the disk was ok and the selected disk was highlighted green, but after a reboot my pc still wanted me to format the drive. I might not ever find out how, but it seems there should be a fix for this problem.If you value the data, you will get another drive. The only surefire way to get the disk structure back is to reformat. Sounds like the MFT and the file bitmap both got corrupted along with the Volume Boot record. Any other attempt at rebuilding the NTFS file system structures could result in the loss of all the files.There is online data storage. http://online-storage-service-review.toptenreviews.com/Quote from: JJ 3000 on February 21, 2009, 11:00:07 PM There is online data storage. Except will the recovery tool be able to restore DIRECTLY to the online location?and i am on dial up...I guess I will just put the drive away until I can get a back up drive...my wife and I are disabled and on a very tight fixed income...that's the prob, or I would have just used the recovery sw and been done...I still cant figure out what went wrong in the first place....testdisk found all the info on the drive in seconds...I thought it would have been online after the reboot...must not have been the master file table |
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