External Hard Drive wanting me to format it before use

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Paulus Honga Posts 2 Registration date Thursday March 27, 2014 Status Member Last seen June 16, 2014 - Jun 16, 2014 at 11:16 PM
carminabigue Posts 620 Registration date Tuesday March 19, 2013 Status Member Last seen June 10, 2015 - Jun 18, 2014 at 01:14 AM

Hello,

when I try to open my external hard drive which contains all my files, a message pope up stating you need to format you local disk drive D before using it. I really don't want to loose my very important files so can any one assist me to solve such problem.

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External Hard Drive wanting me to format it before use
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carminabigue Posts 620 Registration date Tuesday March 19, 2013 Status Member Last seen June 10, 2015 125
Jun 18, 2014 at 01:14 AM

Plug in the drive, bring up CMD, type chkdsk O: /f/r (O is the example drive letter yours may be different). Win will rebuild the file system and all will be fine.

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