Vista - external harddisk changes format in vista??? HEEEEEELP

very strange....

I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
connected to my pc using home premium.
It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
trouble?

Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??

When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
and it should of course be ntfs.

regards

mike

"platinum" <platinum@mail.dk> wrote in message
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> very strange....
>
> I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
> connected to my pc using home premium.
> It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
> I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
> It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
> strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
> It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
> trouble?
>
> Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??
>
> When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
> and it should of course be ntfs.
>



Do you have access to another non-vista computer?

Try connecting it to that.
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BigK wrote this.

Hi

I have just now tried to connect it to a notebook using
win xp professionel and there was no trouble...
It could see the files and it could delete (handle) 1 of them
with no issues at all...
I´m really puzzled......

regards

mike


"Kevin Purcell" <kevinAT@kevinpurcellDOT.org> skrev i meddelelsen
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> "platinum" <platinum@mail.dk> wrote in message
> news:%233SkKUDXHHA.388@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> very strange....
>>
>> I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
>> connected to my pc using home premium.
>> It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
>> I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
>> It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
>> strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
>> It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
>> trouble?
>>
>> Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??
>>
>> When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
>> and it should of course be ntfs.
>>
>
>
>
> Do you have access to another non-vista computer?
>
> Try connecting it to that.
> --
> BigK wrote this.

"platinum" <platinum@mail.dk> wrote in message
news:evys0vDXHHA.480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Hi
>
> I have just now tried to connect it to a notebook using
> win xp professionel and there was no trouble...
> It could see the files and it could delete (handle) 1 of them
> with no issues at all...
> I´m really puzzled......
>
> regards
>
> mike

The good news is you didn't lose your data.

"Kevin Purcell" <kevinAT@kevinpurcellDOT.org> wrote in message
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> The good news is you didn't lose your data.

Yet...

Kevin Purcell wrote:

> "platinum" <platinum@mail.dk> wrote in message
> news:evys0vDXHHA.480@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Hi
>>
>> I have just now tried to connect it to a notebook using
>> win xp professionel and there was no trouble...
>> It could see the files and it could delete (handle) 1 of them
>> with no issues at all...
>> I´m really puzzled......
>>
>> regards
>>
>> mike
>
> The good news is you didn't lose your data.

And I guess the bad news is that he's wasted his money on Vista. Oh well, so
turns the world. What a shame.

Cheers.

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The "Wow" starts now.
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platinum wrote:
> very strange....
>
> I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
> connected to my pc using home premium.
> It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
> I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
> It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
> strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
> It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
> trouble?
>
> Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??
>
> When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
> and it should of course be ntfs.
>
> regards
>
> mike

Out of curiousity have you tried to assign a drive letter to it? It may
allow the system to recognize it.