Audio-Data-Flashdrive wants to be formatted

[europanorama]

After first steps to add an external usb-drive(not yet really finished) i attached again my flash-drive. suddenly it wants to be formatted. changing letter did not help to get access.
do i really have to format my WD my book essential? they say its ntfs-formatted.
Thanks

[Train]

Chkdsk it and it should be OK. Someone did not use safely remove and that messes things up.

[Train]

But those things do have a limited life time. Lost a few myself.

[europanorama]

1. at least data are saved. 2gb only.
2. i switched to data-only usb-stick, everything ok.

will check it on my second drive then 2nd pc.

[europanorama]

Drive seems broken or must be formatted.

i have instructions how to run chkntfs and chkdsk which i do not really understand.
yes i understand but i dont know how.
i must run it on a partitioned drive(winxp-pc).

I could make it run but it says not possible to run on a raw-drive. or similar.

[Train]

Insert flash drive, in My Computer, R-click it, seiect properties, tools tab, error checking which is a form of chkdsk.

Now should you select Format in the first r-click, You can format ot with NTFS or Fat32

[europanorama]

The problem is not that i dont know how to format. Its how to save my data.

[europanorama]

Recover my data.
maybe this will help: what means demo? hopefully timelimited only.
http://www.memorycardrecovery.biz/ap...d-recovery.php

[europanorama]

The mentioned program is for photo, video music-data only.

I made a scan and started recovery. it stopped at 7%.

Is there a good free data-recovery-tool?

[Train]

Here are some excellent freeware file recovery programs, many of our members have had a good deal of success with them:

PC Inspector

Restoration

TestDisk

Recuva