Questions & Answers for: avoid formatting hard drive

...hard drive for a year now (and BTW also experienced the 137GB only formatting issue previously mentioned). The drive was getting close to full and now it is no longer recognized. I vaguely remember ...

avoid formatting drive When I plug my hard drive into my lap top my computer wants to format the drive. I formatted the drive when I first puchased it months ago. Since then I haven't had any problems

hard drive must be formated in order for it to be accessed. What can I do to avoid formatting? The Fantom drive worked just fine in WinXP it wont work in windows 7. It works only in XP,2000 & 2003

...avoid this because if the hard drive fails you will lose your data. Do you want to risk losing your data? The problem could be some bad blocks on the hard disk and Scan Disk may fix this problem BUT ...

...avoid some limitations with FAT32. For example, FAT32 drives have problems with individual files over 4GB. Formatting in NTFS is definitely recommended for people storing large files like video and ...

drive, i even tried formating it from disk management but i can't change the file system from RAW to FAT32.... please help am in very big mess, i just want to format it and make it work, just format i

...formatting processes there several times already, you'd try it on another computer or other professional format tools online to take chances. And one more thing, have you left any important data on ...

...formatting process. However, before any format, in case of losing anything important inside, it is also necessary to recover data out from this RAW file system drive at first. Therefore, from now on, ...

...hard drive away from anything new to avoid farther data loss and choose data recovery software to have a try. Here is a video tutorial that can help you rescue everything possible back: ...