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You need to format the disk in drive E: before you can use it.
Hi,
I've just recently sent my custom pc for repairing. It turns out that the mother board and P.S.U. were toasted. I can't get back my pc at least for 2 months.
I took my previous hard drive out form the pc and then bought a 3.5 SATA HDD External Enclosure (Hornettek Viper) and installed my hard drive inside there. (WD 1TB [Two partitions C: and D: ( Where all my stuff is ) ]
Let's get to the problem now,
When I insert the hdd into my friends's laptop usb port, his computer is able to detect it but it shows me an error:
You need to format the disk in drive E: Before you can use it.
Do you want to format it?
Format disc , Cancel
Is there any way I can encounter this problem? I do not want to format my hd. I've put all my files and pictures in there. Those are very important to me. It's 3 years worth of work. I did not made any back up.
Please help me if you can, I am in an urgent situation here. I've tried everything.
* I've tried inserting the hdd into ubuntu, xp, mac and it doesn't work. XP asked me to format and mac too.
Thank you very much.
I'll strongly appreciate any help given :)
[EDIT]
I have tried fixing my hd with mac's disk utility, and it says I am unable to fix it
* Mac is able to detect my two partitions but i still have to format before using it.
Also, ubuntu doesn't detect my hd at all
Found my PC hard drive model: Western digital Caviar Green Power 1TB 3.5" HardDisk/AdvancedFormat/7200rpm/64mb/SATA II 300
[EDIT]
Got my computer back, plugged hard drive inside of computer, everything is back to normal. Turns out PSU was fried. thanks for helping everyone! :)
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Last edited by harrygary12; 12 Jan 2012 at 08:51. Reason: Solved