formatted usb drive needs formatting?

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Hey all, My machine has a P4B533, and I have a buddies USB external
harddrive, the thing is formatted already, but when put on any 2K/XP
machine, we cant access it as windoze says it needs to be
formatted...obviously that would wipe out the contents (which ARE, in fact,
his backup!)

Any ideas on how to access that drive without formatting? doesnt matter
where I try it (he has asus board too, plus I tried on 3 other
boards)...wierd...
 
Hey all, My machine has a P4B533, and I have a buddies USB external
harddrive, the thing is formatted already, but when put on any 2K/XP
machine, we cant access it as windoze says it needs to be
formatted...obviously that would wipe out the contents (which ARE, in fact,
his backup!)

Any ideas on how to access that drive without formatting? doesnt matter
where I try it (he has asus board too, plus I tried on 3 other
boards)...wierd...
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does the original machine have "go back" on it?
or any other 3rd party recovery software.
 
trailboss said:
Hey all, My machine has a P4B533, and I have a buddies USB external
harddrive, the thing is formatted already, but when put on any 2K/XP
machine, we cant access it as windoze says it needs to be
formatted...obviously that would wipe out the contents (which ARE, in
fact,
his backup!)

Any ideas on how to access that drive without formatting? doesnt matter
where I try it (he has asus board too, plus I tried on 3 other
boards)...wierd...
Click to expand...

I had a similar problem with an external USB drive. My problem was tracked
down to one computer's USB port did provide the power needed to run the
drive and the other computer's USB port did not. I hooked up my optional
external power supply and disabled the hard drive USB port power option and
it worked on either computer.

Another possibly is that the drive you are using needs a proprietary driver
that you have to load from a supplied disk and not a "standard" Microsoft
driver?
 
we've tried it on a variety of new and old machines. tried to access it from
My Computer, command line, etc. nothing...we know its formatted and has
data. just cant read it....thanks for the reply!
 
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