One day when I was transferring files from computer to my USB drive (Lacie 200GB), the computer encountered some errors and I rebooted. Then, when I clicked on the USB drive a pop-up appeared asking me to reformat.
I don't want to reformat because I need the data on the drive.
Can someone help me to solve this difficulty?
Thanks!!!
do a scandisk with the boxes to fix errors checked. This will usually fix the problem. If that doesn't fix it you can use the free "testdisk", it has the capability of recovering a damage partition.
Someone recently had the same problem and was able to get his hard drive working again with testdisk.
All your data is safe, and is 100 percent recoverable. Since you got the warning that the drive needs to be formatted it means that the drive is still good.
Worst case scenario, testdisk has a addon called "photorec" that can recover data from a corrupted hard drive.
If scandisk isn't working, you can also try doing a chkdsk x: /f (the x = drive letter of external).
Do this from the command prompt (run box).
I would try to get a scandisk or chkdsk done first (easy fix) before going to testdisk.
