"Disk in drive 'X' is not formatted. Do you format this disk now?" Error
Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:15 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Nathan
(11 messages posted)
Hi everyone,
I have gone from finding this issue a problem, to actually now finding it intriguing,
because it appears to not meet the 'normal' parameters that are assumed by others
who have commented on previous solutions to this error message when I looked around.
In short, on Friday last, I gleefully installed my new Nero package that was given
to me as a festive gift. After the standard bog-standard reboot to finalise the install
of this software (out of box CD), I found that when I went to access my USB 160GB
External hard drive to make my first test DVD with this package, that drive (in 'My
Computer') no longer appeared as an 'external drive', and was renamed 'local drive'
and in trying access everything stored on it, I got the error message "The Disk in
drive 'G' is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?"
In addition, and much to my annoyance my other spare internal HD, drive 'E' can longer
be accessed with the same error message being thrown up (!!!???)
Now here is the strange part! I have OSLoader as my dual boot option on my PC. The
main drive 'C' is a W2K, where I do virtually all my work, and the other drive 'E'
has XP Sp2 on it, which I use for graphics package work only. If I try and access
my Xp drive 'E' and external backup drive 'G' I get the same error now when inside
my W2K main primary drive as I said. Perior to this I could access all/either of
the drives happily prior to this. However, when I reboot and choose to access my
Xp drive through OsLoader, it boots happily to login, then desktop and perfectly
functioning, all flies intact....it also happily recognises my external hard which
is also perfect...so in this way both drives are fine, information stored, do not
need formatting at all etc etc...all rather silly. I cannot understand why W2K now
tells me these drives need formatting and/ or what caused this sudden inability to
access them through my W2K HD when it had been doing it contently for ever since
I've had it !?
In searching over the last few days for solutions I have done the following proceedures
to try and attempt to rectify the problem, but without success :
Removed Nero 9 installation.
Performed 'Last Known Good Configuration' reboot.
Installed and ran 'TestDisk 6.10'
Ran 'CHKDSK /P' & 'CHKDSK /R' in Recovery Console
Ran FIXMBR also on Console
Full Sophos scan (which found nothing)
Full antispyware that came up with nothing untoward.
Ran 'Emergency Repair' install of W2K
None of the above has made a blind bit of difference. Can anyobody shed any light
on this issue please? Oh, yes, I for got to say there is Hotfix for this issue offered
by Microsoft, and I ran it too.....but nothing changed. I dont know why, when my
W2K has been able to acces both these drives for years, it has just stopped, and
refuses to acknowledge there is any information on these drives, or that they are
fully formatted. I cannot back up anything now because W2K cannot recognise my external
drive, and I am left currently with an otherwise perfectly functioning W2K HD isolated
from anything else, but for this stupid error message. I dont want to format it with
so much on it unless it is truly the last resort. Any suggestions please?
Hope you had a good festive and Happy New Year to all!
Nathan
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