Something horribly wrong with my flash drive!!! HELP!

[Christine]

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?!?!

 

[Pat]

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?!?!

 

[Christine]

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?!?!
>
>
>

 

[Terry R.]

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.


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[mike]

=?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

 

[Elmo]

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)

 

[Christine]

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?

 

[Lem]

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

 

[Christine]

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.

 

[mike]

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