Hard Drive asking me to format every access

[Chris S]

I have a slave hard drive, and every time i try to acess it, i am asked if i want to format it, if i click no nothing happens, and if i click yes it starts to try to format it and then errors because the drive is connected to windows. what can I do

[Flashgear]

can u access the system restore button?? if u can trying system resotoring it to a couple of days bk??

what ever u do, do not re-format the harddrive as it will wipe everything on it

[Chris S]

i know, I don't believe so because i never have faith in that. I g uess i could see. And funny thing is im formatting my C:\ drive tonight because my computer is running REALLY slow

ya had it turned off

[Flashgear]

what system restore has solved ur problem?? or you have turned system restore off?

the system restore is a good tool for when i download these crappy viruses and they block me from viewing websites on the internet, and system restore does the trick for me.

[Chris S]

hehe fixed it

i ran check disk or scan disk or what ever it is called. I am still backing up that code now along with the music

lol

[Flashgear]

what does it come up when you start your computer..... does it say windows is checking for consistancy? and scans the ntfs system??

[Chris S]

it did for a little while saying there may be errors, but now i've fixed it. i manually ran scan disk through windows on it and it works

This is how i fixed it (just incase)

Right click on the drive
Click on Properties
Click on Tools
Click on Check Now... under Error-Checking
Check Automatically fix file system errors | Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors
Click on Start

let it run and see what happens, I will be slow to load the first few times if it works