Hi disc manager can see the drive, it reports it as being a maxter 76 gig, with a healthy partition. However, it won't allow me to do anything with it. It just keeps saying that it needs formatting. Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Hodgson To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:28 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: failing hard drive Hi, Under XP, control panel, administrative tasks and computer management - the disk manager is in the snapin that will load. Thanks. Andrew. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of terry cooper Sent: 26 March 2005 11:14 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: failing hard drive Hi Andrew It is an internal drive, (maxter 80gig) Discs manager? What is that? Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Hodgson To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 11:10 PM Subject: [access-uk] Re: failing hard drive Hi, Is this a USB drive or internal? Probably a curruppt partition table. Have you tried viewing the disk info via Disk manager, or do you have partition tools such as partition magic etc? Thanks. Andrew. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of terry cooper Sent: 25 March 2005 21:31 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] failing hard drive Hi all Does anyone know of an accessible file recovery programme, that will work with jaws? My storage drive seems to be corrupt. The volume label has changed from what I named it, to "local drive d", and won't open. If I click on it, it just says that it needs formatting. I've got gigger bites worth of programmes and music stored on the drive, and really don't want to loose them if possible. Any help would be very much appreciated. Terry