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Windows wants to format My Book 500gig external HD.

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‎04-24-2012 01:52 PM

Hi everybody. I was just wondering what can I do when I have stuff saved but windows wants to format my drive. I backed up my info unto Ext. HD before erasing my entire internal HD on computer. Now I cannot access my saved data, on ANY computer. All it wants to do is to format it. I can unlock it fine with no problems. Help!

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Re: Windows wants to format My Book 500gig external HD.

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‎04-25-2012 12:05 PM

The drive is corrupted

 

retrieve the data with a recovery software

 

I have used TestDisk and it worked

 

you can get other options online

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