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seahawker
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_ 		23. June 2008 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I have many external hard drives and I have encountered a problem.

When I turn on a drive, vista home prem. recognizes the drive, BUT tells me it needs to be reformatted. I have over 200 gb of data on there and know it does not need reformatting.

I have an Archos 704wi-fi that tells me that same message sometimes, but through persistence I eventually get it to work.

I am starting to get nervous.
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rogeball
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_ 		24. June 2008 @ 11:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've never been a big fan of external drives mainly for this reason. It sounds as if you better run a check disk on the external drive, and think very hard about replacing it to a Seagate or western digital drive.

Sounds like the drive is going bad.
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