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My external hard drive suddenly needs to be formatted?

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I have a WD 500G hard drive and it's been working well for me for the last six months. When I tried to use it today , it said that it needed to be formatted. I know that by formatting I will erase all of it contents and I simply can't do that. The weird thing is, is that 7 out of the 8 folders I have on it work just fine. But the most important folder won't open I keep getting a pop up that says it needs to be reformatted. I've tried it on 4 different computers all with the same results. Can anyone help? Thank you for your time
 
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It is quite possible that there is some virus around and it is not necessary that it is a hardware problem. If you do not have a good anti virus software than let the professional do the job. Even if it is a hardware problem, things can be sorted because as I see go for formatting the hard disk only if all other options fail.
 
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