hard disks have an integrated electronics (that is, for 20 years) actual low-level formatting is done at factory (except for some operations on Scsi disks). What is called low-level formatting only means wiping all sectors - including the partition table, boot...

How do i open a hard drive without formatting. hi please help i have an ex seagate h/drive that i cannot open because it says it needs formatting . i have used it with no problems on a laptop (vista) then i tried it on a pc (xp) and now it wont open on...

fell. When i plug the hard drive back in my laptop its asking me to format it. I'm scared to format it because I don't want to lose all my files. is there a way where I can open the hard drive without formatting it.. My daughter dropped my pulled the usb cord...

xp machine and it does the same thing, that is it wanted me to format the drive and indicate there is nothing on the drive. So I lost a whole bunch of data that I have not backed up. It looks like any attempt to get into the drive involves formatting...

I double click/try to explore either drive it comes up with a message saying "Drive is not formatted, do you wish to format it now?" or something along those lines. Of course I don't want to format either drive because I'll lose all of my data, hence the reason...

i deleted the partition of E: but not formatted. So how can I recover the data of E:?. I am formatting my pc with Window XP SP2.While formatting,by mistake i deleted the partition of E: but not formatted. So how can I recover the data of E:? Try with this program:...

when I plug the flash drive back in, to my surprise, the computer asked me to format the flash drive. I quickly checked the property of the drive and there was nothing on it. I took it to an xp machine and it does the same thing, that is it wanted me to format...

Windows xp freezes during format. when i try and install xp it freezes during formatting of my disk.....pleeeeease help. when i try and install xp it freezes during formatting of my disk.....pleeeeease help Is it a new build or a system that was working properly...

How to format XP on HD with Vista. The answer may be here, I'm sorry I couldn't find it. I'm trying to replace Vista with XP, but I can't format the harddrive (it's a HP laptop, I'm trying to format using the XP disc, I didn't try to delete the partition because...

is installed on my C drive (300g raptor) Ive got about 200gb of usless junk on my D drive which I have been trying to format, but i cannot format it because its on 'drive 0' So I went into bios to try and make the C drive the boot drive, and when I reboot...