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fiercechild4u Posts 3 Registration date Sunday 13 December 2009 Status Member Last seen 16 December 2009 - 14 Dec 2009 à 16:14
fiercechild4u Posts 3 Registration date Sunday 13 December 2009 Status Member Last seen 16 December 2009 - 16 Dec 2009 à 18:22
Hello everyone,

For the past few days, I've been trying to access my external drive but I keep getting this repeative message of "You need to format the disk in drive F: before you can use it" or my computer freezes up. I tried assigning it to a different drive but its the same problem. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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dancedhall Posts 3053 Registration date Wednesday 13 May 2009 Status Member Last seen 12 March 2010 656
15 Dec 2009 à 10:33
hi there,

in this situation i will recommend you to format it

by using hp disk format tool

download is available on link below:

https://ccm.net/downloads/tools/4639-hp-usb-disk-storage-format-tool/

Thanks
fiercechild4u Posts 3 Registration date Sunday 13 December 2009 Status Member Last seen 16 December 2009
16 Dec 2009 à 18:22
Is there a way I could fix the external drive without needing to erase the files on my external drive?
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fiercechild4u Posts 3 Registration date Sunday 13 December 2009 Status Member Last seen 16 December 2009
16 Dec 2009 à 18:04
Thanks for the message dancedhall. Unfortunately I downloaded the program but I'm getting a repeative message of permission being denied. Do you know of any other programs I could use?

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