DISK FORMATTING - URGENT HELP NEEDED

[husainz]

hi
my D drive somehow has got really messed up. it says i need to format it but i dont want to loose my work saved on it. plz some1 tell me what to do...this is really urgent. the drive says i can format it, quick format it or enable compression....
any help will be much appreciated
thnx

[husainz]

ermm...no and no
 

Only trying to understand your problem, sorry if the questions seem to obvious for you  

lolllll

awww...sori....i wasnt tryin to sound mean!

thnx 4 tryin sooo much.....i reli appreciate this!

god bless u good people!

[Igloocharlie]

I can only think of one way to sort this out,

download mandrake move from www.linuxiso.org

burn to CD

boot from this cd

foll instruactions

retrieve data from both drives (remember linux has a different file system to windows. Use the file path 'mnt' in explorer and should find both mounted drives.

After all data has been recovered to removable device, (not the live cd btw)

format both drives ensuring you have removed all data.


OTHER IDEA
Run the windows xp disc and select repair install if not using oem (manufacturer, sony) windows. However try and backup data as this can be risky.

OTHER IDEA
Try going to command prompt (start, run, cmd, enter)

Type chkdsk

Allow to run, if any bad sectors run again but with correct /* to correct sectors (I think it is chkdsk/f)

Good luck

[Igloocharlie]

I can only think of one way to sort this out,

3 ways rather