Guest Christine Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to open it, I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?!
Guest Pat Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! Check it for errors. From Windows Explorer, right-click the drive and select Properties, then select the Tools tab. Click the button for checking the disk for errors. "Christine" wrote... > Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to open it, > I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" > > NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?!
Guest Christine Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! I did. Nothing happened. I did it with and without the extra options...basically the window disappeared as soon as I clicked "Start". "Pat" wrote: > Check it for errors. From Windows Explorer, right-click the drive and select >Properties, then select the Tools tab. Click the button for checking the disk for >errors. > > > "Christine" wrote... > > Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to open it, > > I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" > > > > NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?! > > >
Guest Terry R. Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! On 7/12/2007 10:24 AM On a whim, Christine pounded out on the keyboard > I did. Nothing happened. I did it with and without the extra > options...basically the window disappeared as soon as I clicked "Start". > > > "Pat" wrote: > >> Check it for errors. From Windows Explorer, right-click the drive and select >Properties, then select the Tools tab. Click the button for checking the disk for >errors. >> >> >> "Christine" wrote... >>> Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to open it, >>> I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" >>> >>> NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?! >> >> Hi Christine, I used this utility once and it recovered everything: rest2514.exe http://sac-ftp.externet.hu/utildisk12.html Click on it in the list to download it. -- Terry R. ***Reply Note*** Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
Guest mike Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aW5l?= <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in news:B678D4B0-ABFA-4D62-8410-EF3DFD595E93@microsoft.com: > Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to > open it, I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to > format it now?" > > NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?! Can you try it in another OS; my experience of XP is that this sort of thing happens, and my flash drive is still useless in XP, though it worked once. It still works in 98 and my digital pianner. So don't do anything drastic to the drive till you've checked mike
Guest Elmo Posted July 12, 2007 Posted July 12, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! mike wrote: > =?Utf-8?B?Q2hyaXN0aW5l?= <Christine@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in > news:B678D4B0-ABFA-4D62-8410-EF3DFD595E93@microsoft.com: > >> Today I went to get a file off of my flash drive and when I went to >> open it, I got "The disk in drive E is not formatted. Do you want to >> format it now?" >> >> NOOOO I don't want to format it! What happened to my files?!?! > > Can you try it in another OS; my experience of XP is that this sort of > thing happens, and my flash drive is still useless in XP, though it worked > once. It still works in 98 and my digital pianner. > > So don't do anything drastic to the drive till you've checked > > mike Maybe something here? Troubleshooting for USB drives http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html -- Joe =o)
Guest Christine Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 More info... More info... Ok I just found out that the drive was in use on my husband's laptop when we got the wonderful blue screen of death. Did whatever happen to his computer happen to the flash drive as well?
Guest Lem Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: More info... Re: More info... Christine wrote: > Ok I just found out that the drive was in use on my husband's laptop when we > got the wonderful blue screen of death. Did whatever happen to his computer > happen to the flash drive as well? see if this helps: http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleid=1869&page=1 -- Lem -- MS-MVP - Networking To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
Guest Christine Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: More info... Re: More info... I've tried the REST2514.exe a few times. The first time nothing came up. Second time, it said the drive was not accessible.
Guest mike Posted July 14, 2007 Posted July 14, 2007 Re: Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP! Elmo <elmogeek@iglou.invalid> wrote in news:#wBWJyLxHHA.276@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl: > > Maybe something here? > > Troubleshooting for USB drives > http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html > Thanks, Elmo/Joe. I bit the bullet, and it worked! Flash dive now operational. I had a bit of terror when the NIC driver wouldn't load - but I'd forgotten it was a real pain to install on 98, using a special d/led file, but on XP it loaded dead easy from the CD. (Usual panic; whoops, network isn't there. Oh I remember, use the drivers archived on my backup CD,; gawd, they won't work, they're 98, I'll have to d/l some - omigawd, the network won't work, wonder if the motherboard CD will help, oh yes, this is XP now; bosh bosh all done. Now I need a lie down and a fag (that's cigarette to us!). Don't you love computers? Thanks mike
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