My new hard drive caddy wants me to format my hard drive

Klinky

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Nov 30, 2013
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Hello,

I recently purchased a new caddy for my external 1tb Iomega hard drive because the usb connection on my old one became faulty.

My hard drive still works when I hold the usb connector a certain way but I have a lot of important files on it so I bought a new caddy.

When I connected the new caddy to the computer it says I need to format the hard drive.

I went into disk management and its says that there is over 800gb unallocated space.

Is there anyway around this problem without having to format the hard drive.

Thank You!