[Merleobrien]

Please help, i have a Toshiba External Hard Drive and i have had it for about 2 years. its a 500g and i have about 450g infomation on it. it was working fine yesterday and then today it keeps saying you need to formate this drive before you can use it. i have tried to go to properties and fix any problems with it but it keeps saying erro. Please Help as i have 5 years of information on it. :sigh:

 

[JimE]

Test the drive on another computer. That will verify if you have a drive or PC issue.

With that said, this happens ALL the time, especially with external drives. You should have a backup copy of ALL data that you don't want to lose.

There is also a sticky at the top of the page > http://www.techsupportforum.com/for...rtition-or-files-in-your-computer-194492.html

 

[Merleobrien]

Hi Dogg,
i have tryied it on my husbands laptop and its doing the same thing. i really kick myself as i should have had another back up
thank you i will try the link above.