XP Explorer: disable "do you want to format" prompt ?

[NumberOne29@Yahoo.com]

On my XP Home system, one of my logical drives is
formatted "HPFS", which is not recognized by windows.

The drive is listed in Windows Explorer, and if I
accidentally click on it, the following prompt appears:

The disk in drive "X" is not formatted.
Do you want to format it now?

I'm afraid that one of these days, I'll click "yes" by
mistake, and mess up that partition.

Is there a way in Windows Explorer to disable that
"automatic popup prompt" to format drives when the existing
format is unrecognized?

Thanks.