External Hard drive suddenly needs formatting

[verydopey]

I was watching a video off of my external hard drive. and suddenly. it stops playing. media player says the file is corrupt.

i try playing another file, it says that is corrupt too. so i restart my computer.

now i can't access my hard drive and the computer is telling me it needs formatting! can i recover it?

according to windows, it is a Lacie hard drive firewire +IEEE 1394 SBP2 device

help?!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

What file system is it? Can you try to run a CHKDSK on it (during reboot)?

[-pops-]

Have you at any time disconnected the drive without going through the correct disconnection procedure?

The symptoms you state strongly suggest the effect obtained when a USB/Firewire drive is "hot unplugged" whilst it is performing some (possibly hidden) action. It does seem odd through that this occurred whilst the drive was in use. It couldn't have accidentally become unplugged, could it?

[verydopey]

Welcome to the Windows Forum.

What file system is it? Can you try to run a CHKDSK on it (during reboot)?

i'm not that in touch with VISTA yet, how do i do that?

Have you at any time disconnected the drive without going through the correct disconnection procedure?

The symptoms you state strongly suggest the effect obtained when a USB/Firewire drive is "hot unplugged" whilst it is performing some (possibly hidden) action. It does seem odd through that this occurred whilst the drive was in use. It couldn't have accidentally become unplugged, could it?

it definately wasn't unplugged. unless a ghost did it, as i was sitting on the other side of the room. lol. its very odd.