External disc drive has stopped working States that I have to format the disc - It was working yesterday. 0 bytes on properties

Do not use any more and get some data recovery freeware.

click start control panel administrative tools computer management disk management right click on your drive select properties click tools you should see click check now click start two boxes

automatically fix files and scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors place then a tick in both boxes then select check now start

you might tick one box then return after its finished the first repair then return and tick the second box you should not do anything while the chkdsk utility is in progress any input may damage this drive

I found that you get best results by ticking one box then returning after it has finished then tick the other box

then you might have restore it to its default status

Right click on usb drive select properties you will have an array of options

Select the hardware option then select your drive properties policies

restore defaults

In XP

Right click on your drive select properties then on customize restore Default in W 7



hope this helps

You can try opening it and using the drive inside the box in your machine. It may be the box is busted, not the drive.

4 GB pen drive show property as 0 byte used and 0 byte free..when subjected to open show insert disk please help!

this is virus problem. at first clean by resiterd antivirous then format it. or you can try another pc. thanks

It seems that you will lose your files. These file already
infected with virus, and corrupted it. There's no other
way but to reformat your smartdisk.

Are you sure the disk is formatted?
If not, then partition and format it. If it is, the MBR (master boot record) could be corrupt.
Have a look at external hard disk troubleshooting.

Please format it. It needs to be formatted to read them.

First u should format disk from disk management mmc snap or from command prompt.without formatting a disk's properties says 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free space.

Why dont you try nero 6.6 or 7?