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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>How to repair FAT without data loss> Closed How to repair FAT without data loss Tags: Hard Drives How To External Drive Storage Last response: 8 July 2015 14:57 in Storage Share mtroy 10 June 2012 20:27:59 I have an external drive for file storage. It has never been a bootable drive. Something happened to the file allocation table so now when I connect it to any computer, it says I need to reformat. This happened once before and reformatting fixed it an worked fine. However, I'd really like not to lose all this data if possible. Any way to repair the file allocation table with out wiping the drive? I'm not sure if the drive was FAT32 or NTFS. I think it was NTFS. Thanks. More about : repair fat data loss mtroy 10 June 2012 20:46:38 Nevermind, I was able to fix it. In case anyone else experiences this, I just went to a command prompt and typed: chkdsk e: /f (where e: was the external drive being repaired). It ran for about 2 minutes and recovered all 3TB of data without any apparent problems. Oh, and it was an NTFS vol. Score 0 NewGamer_2012 10 November 2012 02:57:03 God bless you man...you saved my life..I recently bought new WD 1TB external hard disk and I backed up my entire data including personal data into WD drive. After couple of months I started facing the same issue, disk was not getting detected and asking to format it which i really didn't want. Even I took this drive to many IT solutions shop to repair it, surfed a lot on internet but couldn't find the answer. Finally i made my mind to format it to get it resolve and I was looking for steps to format drive on internet where I looked at your post and you had the same issue and you gave one simple solution which REALLY WORKED FOR ME!!!! I can't express myself how happy I am because I have got my all personal data back without spending money, without formatting it. Please keep posting such solutions to help everyone. A VERY BIG THANK YOU straight fro