I'm using a Maxtor 5000 external hard drive, and I've used it for well over a year, all of a sudden it says it needs to be formatted, obviously I not want to do this, there goes all my music, my artwork, and what not. Any body know what I could do to correct this problem?

jacob if you could post pics of the problem i will surely know what it is but without pics were sc##ed

If you have an existing internal drive, try and copy all the files back onto it, format the external one and then transfer everything over.

 

 

 

That...or find a couple CDs and disks...

I tried doing a back-up but it'll only let me back-up to a Floppy drive which is obviously not enough. And pictures, what the hell can I do? Take my camera and take pictures of it?

As long as your artwork isn't too large, disks should be ok. As for the music, if you got them from a CD, then it'll be easy to get it all back of course. If you got it from Limewire, then just as easy.

Get someone with a computer to help you, preferably one with a DVD-Writer. If their computer allows you to access the data, it'd be a great idea to shove it all on DVD(s). Format the drive on your PC and use it as normal, but always keep regular backups.

download the nero trial, it offers a back up tool which allows you to back up anything to a DVD, CD or to another hard drive.

 

 

 

But to your problem, have you installed any new hard ware latly, possible USB devices?