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When I connect my I/O Magic to my new laptop it says I need to format the new hard drive beforE i CAN USE IT. i HAVE 55 gb OF PHOTOS ON THIS What can I do?

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People often feel panic when I see this. If I format the drive, will I lose all my data? If not, how could I get access to my files?

My take is that you may have to format the drive and then use data recovery software to recover your files.

Here's some information about file recovery, think you need to take a look, very useful
http://www.asoftech.com/adr/

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Firstly,recover your photos on the hard drive with third party data recovery software.Then you can format it to check out whether it can be fixed.For data recovery software,I have a professional one on my computer that can It can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to drive crash,system sabotage, virus corrupted partitions etc.You can download it and scan your hard drive for free to preview whether your photos can be recovered. Get it from http://www.any-data-recovery.com

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1). Do not format this drive. The formatting process often make thing worse. So, in case of data loss, you'd better never format it before you've restored all these photos back.
2). Do not save anything new on this drive in case of data loss.
3). Download a hard drive data recovery freeware to restore these photos back for free from this unformatted hard drive . Not all of the data recovery programs over the internet could work as efficiently as we think.
So, I would recommend you to try a hard drive data recovery freeware that has ever successfully retrieved all the inaccessible data of my friend:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/external-drive-need-to-be-formatted.html

4). Follow the instructions to retrieve all your needed data back.
5). Do not save these restored pictures on the same drive in case of data recovery failure.

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Going through ur problem i wud recommend u to Kernel for FAT and NTFS. it can recover data in the case of failed hard drive or inaccessible disk . u can try d demo version first, using demo version u can preview d files recovered bt to actually recover dem u hav to buy d software. visit d url to download dis software http://www.windowsdatarecovery.com/

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The file system is corrupted. You will need to recover the files using this
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/recover-lost-partition.htm

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