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Slick · 04-22-2008, 08:44 AM

I've got a 250-gig Western Digital "My Book" hard drive and it worked fine for the last year and a half, but now when I go to fire it up, it shows the drive, but not how big it is, and when I click on it, it wants to format the drive. The drive fires up and runs like normal, I can hear it spinning around, so it doesn't seem broken. I used the WD tools, but it says everything checks out fine.

I had some of the data backed up from the drive, but not all of it. Is that data pretty much fucked ?? or is there a way to get it. I guess I should've been a little more on top of it, but when you have a backup hard drive, you don't expect it to shit out on ya. I guess once this ordeal is over, I'll have to buy a second one and have a backup of a backup.

04-22-2008, 08:44 AM
Slick Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Houghton, MI Posts: 7,338	External Hard Drive "needs to be formatted" when I've been using it, am I fucked ?? I've got a 250-gig Western Digital "My Book" hard drive and it worked fine for the last year and a half, but now when I go to fire it up, it shows the drive, but not how big it is, and when I click on it, it wants to format the drive. The drive fires up and runs like normal, I can hear it spinning around, so it doesn't seem broken. I used the WD tools, but it says everything checks out fine. I had some of the data backed up from the drive, but not all of it. Is that data pretty much fucked ?? or is there a way to get it. I guess I should've been a little more on top of it, but when you have a backup hard drive, you don't expect it to shit out on ya. I guess once this ordeal is over, I'll have to buy a second one and have a backup of a backup.