Hard drive problem

message from Dick Smith on 9 Jun 2004
I may be in the wrong group so please bear with me and if necessary advise
me which group I need to approach.

I have an external hard drive in what my 'tech' man says is a handbag. Each
time I need to use that drive I insert into a space on the computer.

On this drive (200gb) I have very important files including tax returns
data, photographs and music.

Today I tried to access this drive and got the message ' I:\ is not
accessible. The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. '.

Can anybody enlighten me as to what has gone wrong and is there any way that
I can retrieve the important data. (I have no known viruses)

Please, any assistance will be appreciated otherwise I am in a deep deep
Dodo mire.

Dick
 

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