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Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: hwlnba on February 03, 2008, 01:17:46 AM

Title: Formatting Portable Hard Drive
Post by: hwlnba on February 03, 2008, 01:17:46 AM
I have an Astone portable *SPAM* (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) hard drive that I have been using to back up cheap *SPAM* (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) files for about a year. I have been accessing files over the last few days, but yesterday after plugging the portable hard drive buy *SPAM* (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) into the USB port I got a message to say that the hard drive was not formatted, and asked whether I wanted to format the world of warcraft gold (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) disk now. I didn't re-format the portable hard drive for fear of losing any data that may still be there.

Is there a way of recovering wow (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) any data that may be there, or has it gone world of warcraft (http://www.wowgolds.co.uk) already (if I check the Properties of the hard drive it shows Used Space: 0 bytes and Free Space: 0 bytes)?

Thanks
Title: Re: Formatting Portable Hard Drive
Post by: Dusty on February 03, 2008, 06:07:51 PM
Welcome to the CH forums.

Do you have the drive manufacturer's diagnostics program to test the drive?

Like any other electro/mechanical device, drives are likely to suffer catastrophic failure at any time, I hope you have other backup available.

Good luck