Dad has done it again - downloaded something that now stops his IE from loading!

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what's the history of this external drive, is it a sealed usb drive, or an old disk placed in a usb caddy

format it on yours to ntfs

Jo4

Figment wrote: »

Get a local computer shop (NOT a big multiple) to check it for you before consigning it to the recycling centre.

Whilst it's good practice to back up before changing hardware configuration, it's not essential - although I will add the codicil that you do so at your own risk.

It is showing all the details again.

Jo4

closed wrote: »

what's the history of this external drive, is it a sealed usb drive, or an old disk placed in a usb caddy

format it on yours to ntfs

Documents which he did not want to lose were copied over to it years ago!

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so why did you format it?

do no further formats and do not write any data to it if you want to try an recover any data from it

Jo4

closed wrote: »

so why did you format it?

do no further formats and do not write any data to it if you want to try an recover any data from it

He never looked for them since so I didn't think he had any need for them. He probably wouldn't even remember that they are on it.

Jo4

Thanks for all the responses. I am heading home now.

Any idea what external drive would be best to back up his computer and two old ones, one of them only has a 4.76GB hard drive ASAI remember?

I must get all my own computers backed up to my external drive soon.

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any that are big enough - have you proved the one you have is faulty? format it

4.7GB is how much a blank dvd holds.

Jo4

I attempted to format it on his pc but maybe it would have worked if I had attempted it on my own?!? I don't know what day I'll be down at my parents house again, possibly this Friday.