Second hard drive

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Greetings;

I have an HP Pavilion xt938 that I've had about 3 years.

I have a second hard drive (Maxtor) that's been installed for about one year
without problems. Now I am getting an error message that the drive is not
formatted. In My Computer it shows the drive letter but no size.
I did recently defrag it with PerfectDisk, but I don't believe it's the
first time I've done that.

Do I have to reformat it and lose all data that's on it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Henk Verwey

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"Captain Henk" <hverwey@twcny.rr.com> wrote in message
news:2P5Ke.5950$rI6.1217@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
> Greetings;
>
> I have an HP Pavilion xt938 that I've had about 3 years.
>
> I have a second hard drive (Maxtor) that's been installed for about one
year
> without problems. Now I am getting an error message that the drive is not
> formatted. In My Computer it shows the drive letter but no size.
> I did recently defrag it with PerfectDisk, but I don't believe it's the
> first time I've done that.
>
> Do I have to reformat it and lose all data that's on it?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Henk Verwey
>
>
>

You are experiencing the early sign of a drive that is about to fail because
of a virus or worm infection.

If your computer can still read the data on this drive, backup the data . .
.. as many as you can that the situation allows you.

Then, you may watch your drive die slowly . . . or you can reformat it
right away.

I bet Dr. Gregory House will recommend an immediate reformat to avoid the
further spread of the epidemic.


Orinello