Lost formatting

Discussion in 'Storage Devices' started by cjt, Oct 22, 2005.

  1. cjt

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    I recently formatted my C drive and reinstalled windows XP. No problems - all works fine - apart that is from an external Maxtor One Touch hard drive that was connected to the PC by Firewire. This drive, with two particitons, had worked fine but following the XP reinstall the PC no longer recognised it, nor did any other PC recognise it. Partition Manager eventually allowed me to see the Maxtor. But although it showed the two partitions it reported that neither was formatted.

    Any suggestions for what has happened here. I could understand it if the drive had been inadvertantly reformatted during the reinstall but clearly, since the drive is showing unformatted, that is not the case. I could of course simply reformat and start again, but I have some data on the disk that I would like to recover if possible All suggestions welcome.
     

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