Help! Suddenly XP doesn't recognize drive

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Jennifer Ann

I have a 20gig drive that is compressed. I have over 20gigs of music
stored on it. All of a sudden when I try to open the drive in
explorer, I get an error message saying XP needs to format the drive.

Is there a way I can get it to work again? I do have most of the music
on CD's but it is such a pain to reload everything.

I am running XP pro SP2 on a P4 2.4 Ghz with 1 gig of memory.

Thanks,

Jenny
 
Could be a problem with the drive? Run diagnostics on the drive to make
sure it isn't going to die on you. While compression is one of those things
that looks good on paper, in practice it can be problematic. Drives are
incredibly cheap. Buy an additional 80 GB drive for storage of your music,
photos and so on.
 
Kevin said:
Could be a problem with the drive? Run diagnostics on the drive to make
sure it isn't going to die on you. While compression is one of those things
that looks good on paper, in practice it can be problematic. Drives are
incredibly cheap. Buy an additional 80 GB drive for storage of your music,
photos and so on.

Music and photos files consume a lot of hard drive space. A
120 GB hard drive would be better and this size should work
with most recent computer systems without having to do a bios
update or use HD overlays.
 
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