Quote - My external HD was totally erased and I had no virus warnings. . ... Trying to save what I can and the reformat. I hate it!

Before reformating try out the drive on a Mac. A lot of my CD-Rs decayed over time and I found some of them readable on the Mac and not the PC, and vice versa - with each claiming those it couldn't read where blank... When that happened I would use the machine it worked on to back it up and burn a new CD. If you don't know anyone with a Mac, Kinkos used to always have Macs, and might still. If it works there, get all the files you can off, and then reformat and put them back on. OS X can format a drive to be PC readable. I've had to do this many times with my little USB flash drive... Need to buy a new one of those as it keeps failing...

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