Hello,
My query concerns my external hard drive, corrupted partitions and chkdsk, with regard to XP. and the panel saying 'Disk in Drive .. needs formatting'.
I am getting this 'needs formatting' panel. Changing the drive letter doesn't help. I have got the same panel for the two external hard drives I have, one an old C drive with Vista on and the other a data store.
I reckoned it might be that the partition is corrupted but when the Vista blue-screened (which it did a few times in the space of a week or so) when I had it as a C drive, it automatically ran chkdsk and found no errors. I am wondering whether chkdsk is a reliable means to tell whether or not the partition is corrupted or whether there is something physically wrong?
Anyhow, I also thought that the fact that both HDDs yielded the same panel meant that my XP installation is unsound, but when I took one of the HDDs (the data store) to the computer shop it gave a 'needs formatting' panel' on their Win 8. I didn't know whether this was a standard thing on Win 8 when you use a USB caddy to try to access a data store; after all they said that the format wouldn't lose me my data (which is not the way it works with regard to Win XP).
If there is something wrong with both HDDs it might be down to the fact that I had ill-advisedly been unplugging and replugging the HDDs when the computer was running, not knowing about the need for a hot-swappable connection. But then I thought that any such damage would show via chkdsk.
Hope someone can help!
With thanks in advance.
My query concerns my external hard drive, corrupted partitions and chkdsk, with regard to XP. and the panel saying 'Disk in Drive .. needs formatting'.
I am getting this 'needs formatting' panel. Changing the drive letter doesn't help. I have got the same panel for the two external hard drives I have, one an old C drive with Vista on and the other a data store.
I reckoned it might be that the partition is corrupted but when the Vista blue-screened (which it did a few times in the space of a week or so) when I had it as a C drive, it automatically ran chkdsk and found no errors. I am wondering whether chkdsk is a reliable means to tell whether or not the partition is corrupted or whether there is something physically wrong?
Anyhow, I also thought that the fact that both HDDs yielded the same panel meant that my XP installation is unsound, but when I took one of the HDDs (the data store) to the computer shop it gave a 'needs formatting' panel' on their Win 8. I didn't know whether this was a standard thing on Win 8 when you use a USB caddy to try to access a data store; after all they said that the format wouldn't lose me my data (which is not the way it works with regard to Win XP).
If there is something wrong with both HDDs it might be down to the fact that I had ill-advisedly been unplugging and replugging the HDDs when the computer was running, not knowing about the need for a hot-swappable connection. But then I thought that any such damage would show via chkdsk.
Hope someone can help!
With thanks in advance.
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