When I try to open the My Music folder, the message "The disk in drive C is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" I don't think I want to format drive C, but I can't open any of my music or iTunes which is apparently in that folder as well. What should I do?1 person needs an answerI do too

When I try to open the My Music folder, the message "The disk in drive C is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" I don't think I want to format drive C, but I can't open any of my music or iTunes which is apparently in that folder as well. What should I do?You're correct, you don't want to format drive C, because that would erase all of your music (as well as Windows and everything else).This probably is caused by an error on your hard drive. This may be an indication of a failing drive or, if you're lucky, just the result of a system crash or power loss at an unfortunate time. Take a look in the Event Viewer (Start > Run > eventvwr > OK). There may be an entry such as the following:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: DiskEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7Date: xx/xx/xxxxTime: hh:mm:ss PMUser: N/AComputer: xxxxxDescription:The device, \Device\Harddisk0, has a bad block.I don't know if the error will be in the Application or System log, so look in both (start with System). The list generally is sorted with the most recent event at the top. You are looking for an "Error" entry with a white X in red circle. If you find such an entry double click on it.If you find this error, you may want to turn off your computer and take it to a competent local professional (not a BigBoxStore/GeekSquad type of place) because you run the risk of losing some or all of the data on your computer.Otherwise ...If you have backup software, such as a disk imaging application, now would be a good time to run it if you haven't done so recently (although it's possible that you may be unable to complete the backup because of the error).Open a Command Prompt window (Start > Run > cmd > OK), type the following and press Enter chkdsk /rYou should see a message asking if you would like to run chkdsk the next time the computer is started. Respond Y and then reboot the computer.The disk checking process will begin when the computer restarts. It will take some time, so if you don't want to sit staring at the monitor waiting for the results to display, check back after Windows has successfully restarted (hopefully!) and look in Event Viewer for an event from source Winlogon. Double click on this for the chkdsk report.If chkdsk "recovers" anything, the files will be stored in C:\ (or perhaps in C:\FOUNDxxx) with names such as Filexxxx.chk where the xxxx is a number starting with 0000. These files may or may not be usable (they may only be fragments of original files) if they are renamed with the correct file extension. There are third-party tools that do this automatically, although I've never used any of them:http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2008/01/07/how-to-recover-chk-files-created-by-chkdsk-and-scandisk/Note: FOUNDxxx folders are system hidden folders that are made hidden by default by the Operating System and you can see those (if present on the disk) by unchecking the option of “Hide protected Operating System Files and Folders ” in the Folder Options.