# Harddrive Disaster

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-disaster/153939>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [July 5, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-disaster/153939 "2005-07-05T21:00:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Maxtr0sity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maxtr0sity](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maxtr0sity)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/harddrive-disaster/153939/1 "2005-07-05T21:00:35Z")

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So here’s my duzie. I got my external enclosure today, I take out my 120GB Seagate and plug it in and connect it to my laptop, laptop says it needs to be reformatted…nonsense. I plug it into several other computers which spit out the same thing. Now I plug it back into my original computer through IDE and it says that. I have two recovery tools avaliable on hand, what should I do? Should I format and then recover?