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• "You must format the disk in drive J: before you can use it"

  Says error message "You must format the disk in drive J: before that you can use" I have a removable USB storage drive that I always connected to my computer whenever I have download movies save disk space on my computer.  Now, he wants me to format this disk storage.  Also, where he used to qualify this drive as "Removable disk", it is not labeled as Local J: drive. I don't want to format this drive because it erases all my files and folders on removable USB storage drive.  Please help me.

  I had the same problem.
  And I have a solution for you... The problem is that when you plug in your HD first, Windows 7 install your hard drive and associate it with only this USB port (whether the USB port "4") If you want to use (HD) again, you need to plug it into the same USB port (USB port '4'), where it was first installed. It's stupid! But that's how it worked with my HD.

  Try all USB ports you have on your PC.

  Good luck.

  Hope this has been helpful. : D

  PS: the same problem is with all the damage that connect you to your pc.

• USB Flash Drive gives the error "you must format the disk in drive E, before you can use it"

  I just plugged my USB pen and a message pops up saying: "you need to format the disk in drive E, until you can use" I was wondering if and how I can solve this problem? Can anyone help? Sam
  * original title - USB pen problem *.

  Hi samanthaGibbons,

  What is the make and model of your USB Flash drive?

  The USB Flash drive works in any other computer?

  It might be a problem with the drive itself, or it may need to be formatted.

  I suggest you check out the website of the manufacturer for possible troubleshooting or know how to reformat the disk, if necessary.

  I hope this helps!

• "You must format the disk in drive J (k) before you can use it?"

  Hello

  I have a great difficulty to access my external HARD drive. A (Title) error message when I try to connect my HARD drive to pc.

  I have 4 partitions in the disk of which 2 are accessible and 2 are not. Although I have seen some posts regarding this problem already posted, but still nothing has helped me. I tried after restarting the pc, change the name of the drive (from j to o), run the command chkdsk J:/f cmd of switching on the usb ports, but nothing has worked. Except noticed something strange about the file system that is mentioned in RAW instead of NTFS format before the two discs.

  I've attached a screenshot of disk management box, if this can help...

  Thank you!!

  Hey there SimranpreetSingh :)

  I'm sorry for the situation. What is the make and model of drive? Partitions or drives in RAW format are usually those with broken partition tables. For the best chance of getting your data I contact a data recovery company, but bear in mind that their services can be very expensive.

  Some third-party tools are available online, but I can't really recommend a because they are not sure 100%.

  Discs can go in raw if they are not ejected correctly with the safe-eject function. This function checks if all the requests and transfers to and from the reader are completed and that nothing will be lost when you remove the drive. The operating system writes a small amount of data on the disc when he checks everything and then renders the drive secured to eject it. The next time you plug the player into a system, it will try to locate this data element and if it does not find it will recognize the disk as a RAW disk or should be a disc format in order to work with it.

  Captain_WD.

• External hard drive not detected with the error: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  Hello

  I have an external hard drive to work perfectly. I'm back from vacation, and it does not appear under "My Computer". It appears under "Devices and printers", however. This is a link to a screencap of Device Manager: http://i.gyazo.com/9e91e1d71ed32c55dba0419e79b499d5.png

  The device in question is that of J:, and it says here that he has 100% free space, that worries me, because he had only 50 GB of free space when I used the latter. After that I open the disk management, I get a pop up message saying: "You must format the disk in the J: drive until you can use it."

  How can I get my hard drive appears again?

  Thank you

  Original title: external hard drive not appearing is not in Windows 7

  Hi John,.

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I imagine the inconvenience that you are experiencing and will certainly help you in the right direction to solve the problem.

  According to the error message, I suggest trying the suggestions posted by the NakulShridhar responded on 14 October 2011 and by that alexquiteguy replied on 13 January 2011 in the thread following link and check if it helps.

  "You must format the disk in drive J: before you can use it"

  [Steps apply to Windows 7]

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• How do I don't not need to format a disk in drive A: before opening because it will erase my disks and I can't erase these disks?

  OS: Windows Vista

  External drive A:.   HI: I have several disks I want to save to a flash drive, but when I pop in some disks in my a: drive I get the following message: you must format the disk in drive A: before opening it. you do not want to format the drive?  I hit Cancel, because I cannot and do not want to erase the files on the disk, I try to open and save.  [Why he asks me to do exactly the opposite of what I need/want to do?]  Any info on how to solve this dilemma would be g-r-e-a-t.  And - make as clear as possible - no acronyms directions or NASA language coded.  Thank you!

  Hello

  I suggest you to check on another computer and see if it opens, if it is not not the diskette is damaged you must format in order to to use again.

  Note: reformatting or formatting of a disk deletes all the data on the disk. Be sure to back up data before doing so.

• My HDD shows this error: "you must format the disk in the M: drive, until you can use it. You want to format? »

  My HDD shows this error: you need to format the disk in drive M: until you can use it. Format you? 
  Please help me! the hard drive is like my life...
  That's the reason of my existence...
  I need in the data and that i will do everything I have to please :/ someone help me
  Please helpppp!

  Original title: WD hard drive problem! Desperately need help. Please

  Hi Arman,

  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

  I would say you can remove the drive letter M: using disk management and assign a different drive for the drive letter and check if it helps you to solve the problem and if the drive works very well.

  To change the drive letter in disk management follow the steps below:

  a. open computer by clicking the Start> Control Panel > system and security> Administrative Tools > computer management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

  (b) in the left pane, click disk management.

  c. click the drive that you want to change and then click change drive letter and paths.

  d. do one of the following:

  • For letter an if it has not already received, click Add, click the letter you want to use and then click OK.
  • To change a drive letter, click change, click assign the following drive letter, click the letter you want to use, and then click OK.
  • To remove a drive letter, click Remove, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove.

  Additional information:

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter

  In addition, please refer to the steps posted by NakulShridhar responded on October 14, 2011 in the following thread and check if this can help:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_vista-update/you-need-to-format-the-disk-in-drive-j-before-you/4e153784-3217-4425-9c39-48030af82a13

  Warning:
  Running chkdsk on the drive if bad sectors are found on the disk hard when chkdsk attempts to repair this area if all available on which data can be lost.

  Hope this information is useful. Let us know if you need more help, we will be happy to help you.

• External hard drive suddenly cannot open it give the message error "you must format the disk in the drive until you can use it", and your hard disk is 0 bytes

  External hard drive can not suddenly open - fixed

  my external hard drive worked very well all the time, but suddenly I can't open it more, when I tried to open it, it gives the error message "You must format the disk in the drive until you can use it" and my hard drive is 0 bytes, average there is no file in the hard drive. Average, all the data inside hard disk are gone!

  Hello muhammad.

  Before you do anything with this player, you can search online for some data recovery utilities so that you can try to recover your data.

  What operating system do you use?

  Have you tried running chkdsk on the drive?

  Let us know.

  Best regards

  Matthew_Ha

• my USB won't open it says "you must format the disk hard until you can use it"

  Hello
  I have my brand DANE ELEC 16 GB USB key was the work properly. I took it off wile, he played the song, and since then, I have try to open a dialog box open and said you need to format the hard disk: X before you can use I can't format it because I'll lose my data fields, important documents of songs picters.
  If anyone can help me with it please
  Thank you in advance.

  Because you don't properly stop the disc before removing it, you burned her FAT (File Allocation Table that each player has). Your files are still there, but they can only be read by the 'normal' software... think of a hard drive as a subdivision... formatting a disk (any drive) is like the ranking of all sectors which will be the roads and determine where the accommodation structures (folders) can be placed. When a fat gets grilled, all the rankings and roads disappeared suddenly... but the housing is still there. Recovery software puts the ranking and roads back.

  Is there a software that I used to be called "Rescue" that worked fine on the old disk to FAT32. Costs $60 but it was cheaper than $1000 than for a customer who had sprayed a server hard drive (and replaced their backup before calling me, long story, lesson learned client and I learned the value of disaster planning... but I digress), I was at another time.

  Good luck!! Let us know what you find / use / work... so that you can save we / you... because it will never happen.

  TX,
  SM

• The SD card no longer works. "You must format the disk before you can use it"

  I have a dv8000t supplied with XP.  I've upgraded to Vista 32, and after the driver updates and adding the SMCISEnable key in the registry, the SD card reader has worked well.

  Now when I try to use the SD cards, it is said: "you must format the drive until you can use it" as an error message.  I tried the SD cards on other computers, and they work, so I know that is only the HP dv8000t problem. This is perhaps the result of a Windows Service Pack or other update?  I have Vista Service Pack 2.

  Any ideas?  Thank you.

  Hello:

  There is a newer driver that you should try that may fix your issue. April 1, 2009 v2.0.0.9.

  http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=321957&prodSeriesId=1847703&prodNameId=1847704&swEnvOID=2096&swLang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ob-70996-1

  Paul

• Download message "You need to format the disk in drive Z" for an external hard drive that I serve.

  I have a HP Personal Media Drive that fits into a Bay on my HP computer and this is where I store all my files. This morning, I get the message that I need to format disk, which I'm not won't to do what I'd lose all the stored files. I tried a restore to a last week, changing the letter assigned to the drive, downloaded Recuva and Easeus, which does not recognize the drive as an option by attaching it to my XP laptop, where I get also to be format option, so I am at a loss of how to proceed. I read all the Articles of current forum to address the situation, but nothing has worked. The HP Media Drive has been formatted at the factory for an NTFS file system, so this isn't a problem. Any assistance you can give for me to recover the files that are stored on this drive would be appreciated. Thank you.

  http://welcome.HP.com/country/us/en/contact_us.html

  As it does not even when connected to a computer running XP, contact HP to above link for support.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• You must format the disk in the K: drive until you can use it.

  How can I recover data from my USB drive without formatting?

  Tested on another PC?

• "You have to format the disk in the drive...". »

  Hello

  I had some problems with Vista is not able to read hard drive when I try to open my Buffalo external hard drive or my camera, I get the following message: "you must format the disk in drive x until you can use it." Vista reads both in RAW format, but I am absolutely certain that they are not - all of the two has worked very well until a few days ago, and both work perfectly on both XP and OS X. If anyone knows how to solve this problem, I would appreciate it a lot. Thank you

  RA

  Hello jaetejou2,

  Thank you for your response back!

  I suggest you to visit the link provided below to the support of Buffalo with your external hard drive.  I don't know your specific model, but there is a search.

  Buffalo support:
  http://forums.buffalotech.com/Buffalo/Board?Board.ID=SolvedStorageThreads

  However, he advised that it was working a couple of days, when you have submitted.  You did it changes on your operating system before this problem?  I suggest to try a system restore to a point in time where everything worked.  Please let us know status.  Thank you!

  The tool using System Restore may not necessarily help you determine the problem. The System Restore tool uses points of restore to return the system files and settings to an earlier point in time. You can use it to restore the operating system to a point in time where you have not experienced the problem. When you use system restore to restore the computer to a previous state, the programs and updates that you have installed are removed.

  How to repair the operating system and how to restore the configuration of the operating system to an earlier point in time in Windows Vista
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/936212/ James Microsoft answers Support engineer visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• My computer won't allow me to access my files on my portable hard disk without error appear "you must format the E: drive before using it. How can I fix this please!

  My computer won't allow me to access my files on my portable hard disk without error appear "you must format the E: drive before using it. How can I fix this please!

  Try to scan your driver with anti-virus, also try to throw the disc looking for this driver and as you try to run the following tools:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/system_maintenance_for_windows/

  http://support.Microsoft.com/mats/windows_file_and_folder_diag/

• Error - Windows cannot read the disk in drive F:\-Assurez-vous that the disc uses a format Windows recognizes. If the drive is not formatted, you must format it before you use it

  Original title - Windows cannot read blank disc

  When I insert a blank DVD-R disc for burning, an error is indicated - "Windows cannot read the disk in drive F:\-Assurez-vous that the disc uses a format Windows recognizes." If the drive is not formatted, you must format it before you use it. "So I can't burn a DVD-R disc... But if I use the DVD-RW drive, it can be burned smoothly without any problems... Windows cannot recognize only the DVD-R disc... My DVD - RW driver is Sony Optiarc AD - 7280S. When I use Windows 7 without problem was found in the burning a DVD-R disc. But after using Windows 8, I can't burn a DVD-R disc. So please help me...

  Hello

  Thanks for posting your query on the Microsoft Community.

  According to the description, I understand that you have a problem with the disc.

  As you mentioned that you have tried the steps of troubleshooting mentioned in this thread.

  I suggest you run the Fix-it tool and check if it helps.

  This tool diagnosis and repair CD or DVD drive issues, when you can not burn or play CD or DVD discs when a disc is not found, not available or not connected.

  See the link below.
  https://support.Microsoft.com/en-us/mats/cd_dvd_drive_problems?WA=wsignin1.0

  As we have tried most of the troubleshooting steps to resolve this problem, and if the problem persists after you run the tool fix - it also. So, I suggest to get in contact with equipment manufacturers , because they will be the best person to help you.

  Hope this information helps. Please let us know if you need additional assistance. We will be happy to help you.