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From: Percival P. Cassidy on 4 May 2010 14:22
On 05/04/10 10:49 am, BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com wrote:

> Weird. D: appears to be still there but when I click on it, it says
> drive is unformatted, do you want to format?
>
> Any ideas how to fix this? If I do choose to format, what are the
> chances of recovering files that were on there before format?

I had this problem on one machine with floppies and USB drives that were
readable on other machines. The only way I could find to solve the
problem was to reinstall the OS.

Perce
From: thedockson on 8 May 2010 04:50

BertieBigBollox(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Weird. D: appears to be still there but when I click on it, it says
> drive is unformatted, do you want to format?
>
> Any ideas how to fix this? If I do choose to format, what are the
> chances of recovering files that were on there before format?

You maybe could use a live linix cd and drag the files to the working
drive if it shows them intact.
From: BertieBigBollox on 10 May 2010 04:29
On May 4, 5:19 pm, John John - MVP <audetw...(a)nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> BertieBigBol...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Weird. D: appears to be still there but when I click on it, it says
> > drive is unformatted, do you want to format?
>
> > Any ideas how to fix this? If I do choose to format, what are the
> > chances of recovering files that were on there before format?
>
> I suspect that the drive is shown as a "RAW" drive, usually a sign of
> boot sector damage or incorrect partition type in the MBR.  Recovery
> utilities usually handle this problem quite well.  See here:http://www.z-a-recovery.com/art-raw-filesystem.htm You could also try
> TestDisk and see if it can recover the drive.
>
> John

Tried TestDisk but didnt fix the problem...
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