Fat32 error message

Try re-installing your motherboards chipset drivers. You can get them here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProductFamily=Desktop+Boards&ProductLine=Intel%C2%AE+945+Express+Chipset+Family+Boards&ProductProduct=Intel%C2%AE+Desktop+Board+D945GCCR

sounds like hard drive fail. take the hard drive out and put on a PC as a slave setting. if the PC picks it up, if it does go to my computer and check hard drive for faults using windows tools the hard drive should be in FAT32. if it will not read in window or ask's to be formated. it has lost is FAT32 format. now it can be remormatted but you will need a FAT32 format softwear as windows dont use this now in there firm wear. down load the firm wear from dedicated micro web site. and put the 3 files on the hard drive boot folder zip file and another one cannot rember name not dv file think it say or the not pad just the 3 files. put hard drive back in as master again. and turn on it should restart. will take a bit longer as it will be opening the zip file and loading the softwear. when its done then you can sort out the setting in the menu etc for record etc.if hard drive has failed and no repairable format it 2 FAT32 and do as above with 3 files. should be fine then. allso in the site is a manual read this for the setting.... think 6019 is hard drive fault

is it formatted in FAT or FAT32? in order to be recognized in mac you have to format in FAT32

Fat32 has never been the safest format to use with windows xp. Try using a NTFS formatter or even the windows bootable disc would work.

i have the same problem with mine! it's a m505-s980 laptop. the camera froze up so i restarted the computer and now the camera shows dark blue!

Sounds like the hard drive is starting to fail. Do you hear and occasional 'click-click', 'click-click'?. A new hard disk should solve the problem

Sounds like the Hard drive inside is nearing the end of its life. The best way to get your files off it is to remove the hard drive from the external case and install it directly into your computer tower (or get someone who is computer savy to do it).Once in your computer you have a much better chance of recovering your files and even fixing the drive for future use.

connect your mp3 to the computer then right click on the drive click format. after that you mp3 is now good as new.

change the mode of the player to MSC/Rhapsody and connect the player to your computer. after that format the player in your computer windows.Make sure the file format is FAT32

I have several drives backed up and they work fine whenever they are imaged. anyway.. These drives are made for use in Windows and Mac enviorments. It is usually MAC users that have this problem.They are usually preformatted using fat32. because the drive is usually for storage fat32 is sufficent...but there are certain characters that fat32 dosen't care for...Do you have file naming scheme that uses odd characters? if so Those are the file names the error is refferring to. You may choose to reformat the drive using fat32(again) or NTFS(note fat32 has a better chance of data recovery just in case)your main hard drive might be NTFS. The rest is only important if you use a MAC Now if you have a MAC see below. How do I initialise the external drive for Mac OS X? Preparing the Seagate/Maxtor external hard drive in Mac OS X Mac OS X cannot mount a FAT32 partition larger than 137 GB (128 GB binary value). Our partiton is 160 GB (149 GB binary value). Since your external drive comes with a large FAT32 partition preinstalled you will need to initialise the drive to use it in Mac OS X. WARNING: Initialising or partitioning the drive will erase all data on the drive. If you have used this drive on another computer take the drive back to that computer and copy all data off of the drive before proceeding. When the drive was plugged into the Macintosh you probably noticed a message reporting an error that it cannot read the volume. At this point you have the option to initialise the drive. If you missed that message you can initialise the drive manually. Initialising the drive in OS X If you see the volume error, you can click the Initialise option. If you do not see it, then go to Finder > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. In Disk Utility: Select the external drive (149.05 GB). Be sure you select the correct drive before proceeding. If you have more than one 160 GB drive then be sure to select the correct one. 1. Go to the Erase tab. 2. Choose the type of partition (Mac OS Extended). 3. Type a volume label. 4. Tick the box that says "Install Mac OS 9 drivers". If this option is not selected, this device cannot be used by a computer running Mac OS 9. This option does not affect Classic. 5. Click Erase. 6. Read the prompt and Click on Erase again if you agree to erase all the data and you are sure the correct drive is selected. 7. The drive will now show on the desktop with a Firewire icon and the volume label as the name. Additional Information For more information on the FAT32 partition size limit in Mac OS X please read document number 107483 on Apple's support web site. For more information about formatting drives in Mac OS visit Apple's support web site. For more information about decimal versus binary capacity values visit our FAQ on the subject. Let me know what happens. Good Luck, Tim