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[SOLVED] Hard Drive suddenly asking format?

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Hi everyone, got this Toshiba 300Gb external hard drive and this morning it asked for a format when I plugged in into the pc.
Browsed for some info at the web and found an old thread in this forum that talks about using TestDisk? got no experience on this problem so I would appreciate any help for not loosing the data/formating the HD.
Thanks in advance!
 
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Re: Hard Drive suddenly asking format?

Hello loda, went through the link but got no support or downloadable tool for the HD: "Toshiba does not provide diagnostic tools for hard drives, currently."
Any other option to getting started? I went through the 'Disk Management' and found that the file system of the HD changed to RAW, were it supposed to be NTFS?
Any idea? :sad:
 
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Re: Hard Drive suddenly asking format?


I have downloaded the utility (Windows Diagnostic Tool Ver. 1.12
(For IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives) ) and it runs and detects the HD but I cant select it to scan. It just appears like "Toshiba 3.5" - HDD" but cant do anything else about it..
Im trying to figure out if I did something wrong or if its the wrong tool?
 
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