As the title says I just formatted the drive that contains windows, and now that I have it reinstalled when I try to access the other storage drive I have installed it wants to format it! It says it's "RAW" and unpartitioned now. WTF? Is there anything I can do to retrieve the data from it or do I have to format it to be able to use it? During setup I only formatted drive C: which was my windows drive so I don't understand why I can't access the other drive now.
![[H]ard|Forum](/styles/hardforum/xenforo/logo_dark.png){kind=logo}
Just formatted my windows drive, now Windows wants to format my storage drive?
- Thread starter toga2
- Start date
Can you boot another machine with your storage drive as the slave and copy your data off of that? I once used fdisk from Gentoo LiveCD to re-partition a HD that had data on 3 primary partitions into having the first partition being the only setup (didnt re-size partition though) then a few days later, I used fdisk again to re-create the partitions as before and everything worked fine, although I did keep track of the size of the partition so I would know where to start/end a partition. Maybe you can try this but I dont want you to risk dataloss 
I don't really have another system to test it on. I have no clue why this is happening. Was there something I was supposed to do before formatting the windows drive? The only time Windows even detects the drive in "My Computer" is after I have attempted to reinstall the drive using Seagate's utilities. The utilities also want to format it though. This is insane. It's really not that much data - like 20 GB max I believe but there were a lot of songs and movies on there that I really want to keep
pandora's box
Supreme [H]ardness
- Joined
- Sep 7, 2004
- Messages
- 4,846
you probably deleted all the partitions on the all your drives when you installed windows.