external harddisk changes format in vista??? HEEEEEELP

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very strange....

I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
connected to my pc using home premium.
It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
trouble?

Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??

When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
and it should of course be ntfs.

regards

mike
 
platinum said:
very strange....

I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
connected to my pc using home premium.
It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
trouble?

Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??

When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
and it should of course be ntfs.
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Do you have access to another non-vista computer?

Try connecting it to that.
 
Hi

I have just now tried to connect it to a notebook using
win xp professionel and there was no trouble...
It could see the files and it could delete (handle) 1 of them
with no issues at all...
I´m really puzzled......

regards

mike
 
platinum said:
Hi

I have just now tried to connect it to a notebook using
win xp professionel and there was no trouble...
It could see the files and it could delete (handle) 1 of them
with no issues at all...
I´m really puzzled......

regards

mike
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The good news is you didn't lose your data.
 
Kevin said:
The good news is you didn't lose your data.
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And I guess the bad news is that he's wasted his money on Vista. Oh well, so
turns the world. What a shame.

Cheers.
 
platinum said:
very strange....

I have a newer external harddisk packard bell usb 2.0 400 gb
connected to my pc using home premium.
It worked initially but when I turned my pc on this morning
I can´t get no access to it (but it shows up in explorer as local disk)
It says that I need to format the disk in order to use it...which I find
strange since I have over 350 gb of data on it.
It might be a harddisk error of some sort or maybe it´s vista making
trouble?

Is there anyway to save the data without making it format??

When I look under diskhandling under administration it says format "RAW"
and it should of course be ntfs.

regards

mike
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Out of curiousity have you tried to assign a drive letter to it? It may
allow the system to recognize it.
 
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