- Do not want to reformat external hard drive
- Posted by filmdrew@gmail.com on May 1st, 2006
My external hard drive has just decided to stop being viewed on my
computer as EXTERNAL and is now viewed as "Local Disc" and when I click
on it to view the contents, a pop up tells me it has not been formatted
and that I need to format the drive. Does anyone know what might be
causing it, and how I can solve it? Thank you.
-Andrew
- Posted by Shenan Stanley on May 1st, 2006
filmdrew wrote:
If you plug it into a different computer - how does it react?
If okay - you may want to get stuff off, format it, put stuff back on and
move on instead of putting too much time/effort into it. =)
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- Posted by janfeb on May 1st, 2006
you have run scan disk on it? often? disk defrag ?when you run scan disk make
sure it says E drive not C drive.
"filmdrew@gmail.com" wrote:
- Posted by filmdrew@gmail.com on May 1st, 2006
i have tried runnning a few different defragging and virus scans,
unfortunately they wont run on the external drive because it just cant
read it, and some of them said "cannon read F drive".
