Comments | r_smith0: My E drive is nuts...

r_smith0

My E drive is nuts...

Oct 18, 2007 21:50

My E drive (the slave drive I've set from one of the two HD's of my old computer) has been randomly telling me it's not formatted (while I can still see the file exist with a recovery program). Thankfully I backed up everything to DVD when it felt it was in a "I'm formatted" mood ( Read more... )

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cc452 October 19 2007, 02:09:55 UTC

Well, it's one of two things. It's either the hardware is failing, or the file structure is broked. As it's FAT32, that wouldn't surprise me. If you have everything backed up, I would reformat that drive to NTFS, restore your files, and see how it fares.

r_smith0 October 19 2007, 03:04:40 UTC

Alright, well the other night I figured I'd try reformatting it, however it only listed 1.96GB as the space (the rest taken up by the files...)... but shouldn't it list it as 20 something GB's?

Guess it's really broken....

zola October 19 2007, 02:12:57 UTC

The controller is probably going. Get a new drive, seriously.

r_smith0 October 19 2007, 03:05:15 UTC

Probably will most likely.... was just something I used on and off for large media files and such.

dkpk1986 October 19 2007, 11:46:26 UTC

Exact some thing happened to Shawn's computer and I think he fixed it without getting anything new... I'll ask him. (Keep in mind, he's a computer expert.) ;) So the answer will probably be long and complicated, lol!