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What kind of computer is it? When does the message occur? During bootup? When you're using the drive? Does it have a floppy drive?
Possibly the CMOS battery is dying and your BIOS settings have gotten screwed up. Does your computer have trouble keeping time when it's shut off?
It's a Dell and it happens when I bootup. I don't think I do have a floppy drive - just a cd drive.
It hasn't had trouble before. (But the first time it happened one of the things I had to do is reset the time/date.)
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sumi, I strongly suspect the CMOS battery (is that what you call it? Anyway, it backs up the BIOS as well as runs the clock when the computer is off) needs replacing.
In the meantime, you can go into the BIOS at bootup and tell your computer it has no floppy, but you might need to do that again.
Or you could just leave it on all the time.
Okay.
CMOS battery. Huh. How pricy is that? And will I be able to replace it myself?
There are (in general, but there are exceptions) most computer batteries are $6 Lithium Ion button batteries about the size of a nickel, or tiny little 1/2 AA barrel shaped batteries.
Look on your motherboard, it's likely there somewhere, and quite likely to be a 3v CR2016 or CR2032, or a 3.6 v CR2025 maybe.
Available at electronics counters everywhere, including Wal-Mart, etc.
Thank you, I will.
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Well, the great experiment to recover the USB drive has failed. I can't even reformat it blank now. Very irritating. I backed it up before it failed utterly, but now I'm nervous about relying on the technology as much as I had been--keeping email on a locked drive, primarily. Most everything else is duplicated somewhere else, but the email contains sent messages that weren't anywhere else.
How did I break it? Unplugged it before ejection was complete. Caveat user.