You Need to Format the Disk in Drive on an formatted flash drive

[Robert Salas]

   

I can't open my flash drive... Im getting this error message in opening my flash drive that i need to format it before i can use it. it s already formatted and has important files in it. i can't format it because i have important data in that flash drive that will be lost if i format it..... any fix to this?

[Partha]

First, see if the issue occurs if you connect the drive to any other USB port or on another system

If the issue persists, run a chkdsk /r on the drive. In your case, it would be chkdsk e: /r

[Robert Salas]

(02-27-2017, 11:49 AM)Partha Wrote:  First, see if the issue occurs if you connect the drive to any other USB port or on another system

If the issue persists, run a chkdsk /r on the drive. In your case, it would be chkdsk e: /r

I already try it it says "The type of the file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not available for RAW drives."
   

[Compton]

I would boot up a Linux operating system plugin the flash drive to see if you can get data off of it

[Robert Salas]

(02-27-2017, 11:58 AM)Compton Wrote:  I would boot up a Linux operating system plugin the flash drive to see if you can get data off of it

Like Ubuntu?

[Compton]

yes

[Robert Salas]

(02-27-2017, 11:58 AM)Compton Wrote:  I would boot up a Linux operating system plugin the flash drive to see if you can get data off of it

I try to my Ubuntu on an Vmware virtual machine. It does not read that flash drive but my other flash drive seams to be recognize by Ubuntu

[Partha]

I just came across this software called M3 Data Recovery  that could repair issues like that. It might be worth giving that a try

https://www.m3datarecovery.com/raw-to-ntfs/chkdsk-not-available-for-raw-drives.html

[Compton]

ok try booting up Ubuntu on real hardware then plugin flash drive

using a VM might create problems