Timeline for "You need to format your disk in drive X" message on my external hard drive
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| May 14, 2017 at 5:11 | comment | added | phuclv | using FAT32 for large drives is a bad idea | |
| May 14, 2017 at 4:30 | history | edited | Journeyman Geek♦ |
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| May 30, 2011 at 16:26 | vote | accept | Marnix | ||
| May 30, 2011 at 7:43 | answer | added | user82711 | timeline score: -2 | |
| May 29, 2011 at 11:37 | comment | added | soandos | 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? | |
| May 29, 2011 at 9:22 | comment | added | Marnix | @soandos: I mean that explorer doesn't want to open my external HDD, it just tells me that it has to be formatted first. | |
| May 29, 2011 at 0:22 | answer | added | Grant Swinger | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 28, 2011 at 23:52 | comment | added | soandos | What do you mean corrupted? Are you having issues reading from the drive? | |
| May 28, 2011 at 23:51 | comment | added | Marnix | @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. | |
| May 28, 2011 at 23:46 | comment | added | soandos | 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. | |
| May 28, 2011 at 23:33 | history | asked | Marnix | CC BY-SA 3.0 |