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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by boron[/i] [br]Hey Guys, So something went wrong with my desktop so I decided to use my 750 Gb external USB hard drive to save the files and perform a clean install of the OS. The drive is usually plugged into my laptop. My brother being the one transfering the files, plugged it into the problematic PC and when he tried to access it was told "I:\ is not accessible. Access is denied." So he re-booted the computer and windows XP decided to perform a check disk on the external drive and my brother allowed this to occur. After the check was complete he was able to access the files no problem and transfer all the data we wanted saved. Now the problem is that when I now plug the same drive into my laptop (on which it worked perfectly before) I now get the exact same error message and when the drive is connected Windows 7 informs me that the drive needs to be formatted before use... So any ideas what went wrong and how I can regain access to all the files on the drive from my laptop? Thanks in advance. [/quote]    Insert an Image File (GIF, JPG, JPEG, BMP, ZIP, PNG) Check here to include your profile signature.