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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows XP => Topic started by: Jason Moon on June 20, 2005, 03:16:22 PM

Title: External Hard drive suddenly unformated
Post by: Jason Moon on June 20, 2005, 03:16:22 PM

This has happened a few times now.  I have a maxtor 200gig hard drive hooked up to xp through a usb port.  Everything is fine and then one day I turn on my compurt and I am told the drive is unformated.  I know its formated casue it has all my back-up info on it and it just worked 2 minutes ago.  If I format it I will loose the data.  What is going on?  is it hardware or Xp, and how do I get the data back?
thank you,
Moon

Title: Re: External Hard drive suddenly unformated
Post by: merlin_2 on June 20, 2005, 03:29:48 PM

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