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    It could be that it is telling you that FAT32 on a 400GB drive is a bad idea, and that you should move to NTFS (which is true, there are a lot of advantages, etc). You don't have to though.
    – soandos
    Commented May 28, 2011 at 23:46
  • @soandos: Yes I know I should, but I didn't know that when I bought this hard drive a year ago. But still, my files seem to be corrupted or something.
    – Marnix
    Commented May 28, 2011 at 23:51
  • What do you mean corrupted? Are you having issues reading from the drive?
    – soandos
    Commented May 28, 2011 at 23:52
  • @soandos: I mean that explorer doesn't want to open my external HDD, it just tells me that it has to be formatted first.
    – Marnix
    Commented May 29, 2011 at 9:22
  • Try with a different file explorer or OS. There is no reason to go and spend hundreds of dollars (usually) to recover data if you dont have to. Have you tried chkdsk?
    – soandos
    Commented May 29, 2011 at 11:37