yankee34

Aleady done won't fall into that trap again.... When the Recuva software says it will take 6 hours it means it bye the way.... thankfully after the first abortive attempt due to a crap keyboard I didnt have to revisit it... Many thank 's again ...... change your status to Computer Legend .... cheers yankee34 signing out for now ....

Yee ha .. tried chkdsk again & it repaired & deleted what ever had gone arye, your an absolute legend ... cheers any time I can be of help look me up ..... cheers ...........

Cheers mate I'll let you know how I get on ..........

No sorry it#s Windows 7 (not sure if it's 32 or 64 bit)

In Disk Management the J drive has a Status Healthy Active but the File system is blank, below this is PQService ? Status is Healthy, Unknown Partition? File system is NTFS ...

No still the same ......

no good : drive, file or path name is not valid?

Yes : J :

Have tried to repair with 32 & 64 bit software but this doesn't help, if it wasn't for saved photos on the drive I would format & re-install .... ????????

Help ...............................

Done & Drive is showing, though there is no file system listed .. ie NTFS ... Also shows in my computer but will not allow to open or auto play ???????

Done yes Drive shows ? though it does not show as having a file system .. ie NTFS ???

Back again finally got the drive to be recognised same message ""drive not fromatted""

No probs get to you shortly .........

I have also tried this but when the drive is recognised the host Pc attempts to format the drive ....