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pippster
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_ 		29. April 2014 @ 10:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Howdy lads, I have a Samsung External hard drive that my laptop is no longer recognizing. The laptop asks me if I want to reformat the hard drive. What exactly will happen if I attempt this will I lose all the data on the hard drive? Any fixes for this? I'm not a technophob but rather uninformed on this scenario. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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ddp
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_ 		29. April 2014 @ 13:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
do not format it as will lose data.
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attar
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_ 		29. April 2014 @ 14:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Plug it into another PC and if it isn't recognized, download and burn a Linux boot disk.
Wait until it loads the Linux desktop and plug the drive into a USB 2 port.
If it sees the drive click on it and see if any files are visible.
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pippster
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_ 		30. April 2014 @ 12:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by attar:
 Plug it into another PC and if it isn't recognized, download and burn a Linux boot disk.
Wait until it loads the Linux desktop and plug the drive into a USB 2 port.
If it sees the drive click on it and see if any files are visible.
thanks guys, I will not reformat so and I will try the above tonight.
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