The disk in drive I is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?

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Woke up, to find out that I can't access to my second hard driver (called book I think), I was able to access it first, but when I tried to open a folder it gave me corrupt error. Decided to do restart, after restart I got this error: The disk in drive I is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?
^^ Picture: http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/mercury1515/4-2.png

After that I started to google it, and came on to that topic: https://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-34363-The-disk-in-drive-F-is-not-formatted-Do-you-want-to-format-it-now.html

Then I started trying the programs out, first I tried TestDisk. Followed the guide: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step
I got stuck because Partion was not found, did deeper search and result was still same. Restarted and did it once more. Gave up on that program, and decided to try: Partition Table Doctor 3.5, once I started it It told me this:

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^^ Picture: http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/mercury1515/6-1.png

As you can see, I was unable to use that program aswell.

Picture of Disk management: http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/mercury1515/Dazz.png

My question then, what I should to next? And also, if I fortmat my disk I, I will lose all my stuff from disk I?

Thanks in advance.
 
Normally try it on another computer first. If it works well then you may copy everything and if it doesn't then the only thing will be to format the drive.
 
Normally try it on another computer first. If it works well then you may copy everything and if it doesn't then the only thing will be to format the drive.

Didn't really bother before to try it on another pc, because I was 99% sure that would not fix problem. Anyways connected to my bro PC, and it gave same "errors".

I'm not in hurry to format my book yet, I'll just wait maybe someone got some idea.

Also had a chat with my friend and he told:
| 05:09:57 PM | <Me> If I format i, I should lose all?
| 05:10:00 PM | *: there's not much you can do
| 05:10:21 PM | *: no not nessecarily
| 05:11:04 PM | *: windows' own format thing doesn't write anything on the old data really it just removes the "links" to the data so example recuva can after that find them
| 05:11:18 PM | *: but it doesn't mean that you will get everything back
| 05:11:21 PM | *: it anything
| 05:11:30 PM | *: *or

Thanks for helping Ultiweap. :grinthumb
 
You have a failed drive because the boot sectors, or first 18 sectors of the drive plates have likely bubbled up the magnetic media. Centrifical force threw off the data that enables the boot.

My guess is that if you insert that drive into a quality external USB drive, such as Nextar, you will be able to access the files that you most want to keep, and copy them off to a working drive, or to a Flash Drive.. Once started, do not turn it off until done.

But your hard drive is likely never to boot reliably again. It may work for a while using Virtual Lab or the other, but that fix will be short lived.
 
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