# Computer Problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-problem/9936
**Category:** random
**Created:** [December 21, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-problem/9936 "2002-12-21T02:46:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@SureShot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/SureShot)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-problem/9936/1 "2002-12-21T02:46:32Z")
Hey guys - this is my problem.
I had some stuff qued up to download while I was at work.
I come home and there is a little yellow message box at the bottom of my screen where the windows update thing would be and where you get a message if you have new hardware.
Anyway, it says “could not save file blah.rar to destination drive, there may have been a problem with your network connection or your hard disk”
Well - I figured since I was having trouble with my Cable internet that was the problem. Well I try to access the drive (it’s partitioned - but the other partition on the same drive still works?) and it says “disk not formatted, do you wish to format”
Well that scares the crap out of me. So I restart and instead of it being it’s usual name it says “Local Drive” well when I right click on it to explore it takes forever and then comes up something like “illegal parameters” or something… when I tried it again it gave me the “Disk not formatted, do you wish to format”
What does this mean! Am I gonna have to format it - Did I loose everything that was on it (my o.s. is on another one thank god)
If I have to format do I have to take the other partition with it or just do that one? I have no idea guys - I am not good with this kind of hardware stuff. Can someone please help me?
p.s. If I do have to format it - how do I format just that one drive? I am using Windows XP Pro.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/computer-problem/9936/2 "2002-12-21T03:38:19Z")
you are probably going to have to format
if you have an xp startup disk it should work
should…or a 98 startup. the startup disk will put enough system files on the machine to start up, read drives, do basic functions but thats about it…also format…its all you need to reformat a machine