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AcidBurn2020 · 10-04-2007, 02:55 PM

I have a 320 gig WD external hard drive. I just recently reinstalled windows xp and when I plugged my external into my computer I can't access it. Every time I click to access it, a message comes up that says I must format the hard drive. I don't want to format it because I have around 200 gigs of important media on the drive. If anybody has any ideas, they would be appreciated.

- Chris

(IDK if this helps but the hard drive is recognized as a local disk on my computer. As in when I open My Computer, it lists Local Disk (C) and it also says Local Disk (H) but the H drive is the external and shouldnt be recognized as a Local Disk.)

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AcidBurn2020 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3 OS: Win XP	[SOLVED] WD External Access Problems I have a 320 gig WD external hard drive. I just recently reinstalled windows xp and when I plugged my external into my computer I can't access it. Every time I click to access it, a message comes up that says I must format the hard drive. I don't want to format it because I have around 200 gigs of important media on the drive. If anybody has any ideas, they would be appreciated. - Chris (IDK if this helps but the hard drive is recognized as a local disk on my computer. As in when I open My Computer, it lists Local Disk (C) and it also says Local Disk (H) but the H drive is the external and shouldnt be recognized as a Local Disk.)