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thisisaby · 10-06-2006, 01:27 AM

Connected USB firelite HD to a PC running newly installed XP pro SP2, HD had 40GB of Information stored, could access the info without a problem on any other PC as soon as I pluged it into any USB port. However, HD didn't appear in MY COMPUTER, I went to administrative tools, saw the HD with an allocated partition, right click on the drive and created a partition and assigned a letter to it and made it active but WITHOUT FORMATTING IT. Went back to my computer to access the HD, I was asked to format it every time tried to access the info. Is there anyway the HD can be accessed without having to format it so I don't lose any info? please, very important indeed info is on it,many thanks.

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thisisaby Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 3 OS: winXP pro SP2	Unable to access External USB Hard drive Connected USB firelite HD to a PC running newly installed XP pro SP2, HD had 40GB of Information stored, could access the info without a problem on any other PC as soon as I pluged it into any USB port. However, HD didn't appear in MY COMPUTER, I went to administrative tools, saw the HD with an allocated partition, right click on the drive and created a partition and assigned a letter to it and made it active but WITHOUT FORMATTING IT. Went back to my computer to access the HD, I was asked to format it every time tried to access the info. Is there anyway the HD can be accessed without having to format it so I don't lose any info? please, very important indeed info is on it,many thanks.