New windows xp format

[yomafire]

Question

I have a 300 gig sata drive with lots of movies etc. I installed windows on my raptor and did not touch this one

When I go to disk management it showed unallocated so I created new partition without formatting thinking I can access it after I do that.

But, when I try I get the "format drive" message?

What can I do?

OMG I dont care if I have to re install windows again but I need to access that data

 

[xtknight]

Need some specifics here.

What showed unallocated? The 300GB or the 72GB?
What did you get the format drive message on?

(And what were you trying to accomplish in the first place?)

Is this a reinstall? What I'm thinking happened is you accidentally deleted the wrong drive in the installer (300GB instead of 72GB).

 

[yomafire]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Need some specifics here.

What showed unallocated? The 300GB or the 72GB?
What did you get the format drive message on?

(And what were you trying to accomplish in the first place?)

Well the raptor shows up. And it works fine. But the Maxtor 300 shows up liek 276 unallocated.

Basically it shows up but it has no File system attacked to it (the raptors have NTFS) but this one is blank

Im about to cry

 

[xtknight]

Is this a reinstall? What I'm thinking happened is you accidentally deleted the wrong drive in the installer (300GB instead of 72GB).

You might be able to get the data back, you have a good chance of it if you don't do any formatting, Try this: http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=33&threadid=1790641&enterthread=y

Install and save that program on the Raptor, and don't access the 300GB drive at all unless it's with a recovery utility. Each time the 300GB is written to it'll lose some of the old data. Hopefully the new partition didn't destroy the master boot record where all the files are indexed but if it did the program above should be able to work anyway. Even through a quick format it should work but not through a full format. Just leave the drive as it is and don't format it at all.

 

[yomafire]

Im quite positive that I didnt touch the 300 gig one. I know that because I disconnected it when setting up the raid0.

Then when windows installed I connected it up.

The problem is the data is still on the drive, but Windows does not see it as NTFS but only raw.

I need help.

Tried the proggy but it doesnt detect the drive

 

[xtknight]

Alright, if you disconnected the drive then I can't see how it was possibly damaged. It's probably a detection problem. Could you screenshot the Windows admin disk management?

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: yomafire
When I go to disk management it showed unallocated so I created new partition without formatting thinking I can access it after I do that.

If you Partitioned that 300GB drive, then you made a mistake...If that drive is important to you, I suggest cloning it with Ghost 2003 or something similar, and then attempting recovery with suitable software...on the clone. If that 300GB drive got re-partitioned, realize that ANYTHING that writes to that drive now risks permanent data loss.

Hit "F1" in the Disk Management Console and read more about this problem.

After a couple of experiences like this, many people start keeping backups of their important data.