USB hard disk error: "You need to format the disk in drive F: ..."
I have a pretty old usb hard drive and i was just moving my mp3 and video files to different drives connected to my computer, but all of a sudden it got hanged. I stopped it and went to check this drive and received this following error "You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it". I dont want to format this drive as there are many important data stored so can anyone tell me how should i rectify this error message? Thanks
Re: USB hard disk error: "You need to format the disk in drive F: ..."
Why dont you try to right click on the hard drive icon and then go to its Properties, and from there go to Tools. After that check for the option called Check Now in Error checking tab, once it is selected then it will start to scan the hdd for any kind of errors that it is facing and should be able to fix. Once it fixes the problem immediately make a backup of this drive, so that incase if it fails afterwards then you can easily format it.
Re: USB hard disk error: "You need to format the disk in drive F: ..."
I have this problem on Windows 7 with my 8GB flash drive and I would format mine but when I go to, Windows only gives me the option to format 5GB of it instead of the whole 8GB. I can access this drive on Ubuntu, in fact I did have a boot-able Ubuntu installed onto this same drive but I have been able to use it as both in the past.
Re: USB hard disk error: "You need to format the disk in drive F: ..."
try using the data recovery software such as EASEUS DATA RECOVERY WIZARD. That should help you recovery whatever data you need out of your raw drive.