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everytime i try to open ma D: drive though My Computer it keeps saying "this disk is formatted do u wanna for it?" but my HDD was werking yesterday and this morning. ive tired restrting system and n joy.... can anyone help me plz?
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usually happens wen the sectors become corrupt or damaged, normally happens with a floppy disk u will have to reformat
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argh!!! i dont wanna format, ive got 800MB ov MP3's all from a 56k... nooo i cannot format there no otha way around it
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no unless u can access them in DOS then u will need to invest in sum expensive data recovery software apart from that ul have to reformat
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Copy all music onto another hd if u have one then format the other one and copy back. But if u havent got another hd then u gotta re-format
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The only thing u can probably try is to run some sort of hdd diagnostics on it, download some stuff off of Kazaa and try and it may be able to restore some stuff off the disk.

[Edited on 29-05-2003 by Skinz]
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quote:
Originally posted by Happy_2008
Copy all music onto another hd if u have one then format the other one and copy back. But if u havent got another hd then u gotta re-format


ive got anotha one, but it wont let me in too it to copy stuff, i'll try it in DOS
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29th May 03 at 22:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
What make is the drive?
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if its fujitsu chuck it in the bin asap
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its Western Digital, ive only had it since January
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Whats the command you type in, in DOS to copy to? i forgot
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Punto the best one to buy i think is Seagate
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u want xcopy d:\*.* c:\backup or summit /s
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hmmmm
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i want copy stuff from d:\my documents\my music too c:\my music
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type d: <enter>
type cd my documents\my music <enter>
xcopy *.* c:\my music <enter>

[Edited on 29-05-2003 by Steve106GTi]
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cheer m8, i'll go try tht
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dos won't allow spaces in it i.e. the my documents bit
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d:

dir /p

that will show you the dos name of the my documents folder
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if hes using windows 2000 or xp then it will adam
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quote:
Originally posted by Happy_2008
Punto the best one to buy i think is Seagate


Here here.

I'm biased, cuz I work for Seagate !
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wot do i do instead ov spaces?
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im using 2k oi how do i get into DOS in win 2k cos there no restat in dos mode

[Edited on 29-05-2003 by Punto_Gav]
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quote:
Originally posted by Punto_Gav
im using 2k oi how do i get into DOS in win 2k cos there no restat in dos mode

[Edited on 29-05-2003 by Punto_Gav]


go to run, and type command
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cheers

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