TheGuitarGuy
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Hi, I'm new here,, i searched for topics similar to mine but none seemed to be quite was i was looking for. My situation is this, I had a virus of some sort and had to use the system recovery cds that came with my pc to reload windows, I managed to not lose any data from my c drive. But after doing this, I reboot and now windows xp won't read my external hard drive, which up untill this point seemed to have nothing to do with the problem.
It reads it as a removable drive, but windows won't let me access it because it says its "not formatted", then asks me to format, which i can't because i have important data on there. I've looked into a lot of data recovery programs but they all seem to be aimed at more severe problems than mine. so the simple question is.. Is there any way to access this drive now without resorting to more drastic measures?
It reads it as a removable drive, but windows won't let me access it because it says its "not formatted", then asks me to format, which i can't because i have important data on there. I've looked into a lot of data recovery programs but they all seem to be aimed at more severe problems than mine. so the simple question is.. Is there any way to access this drive now without resorting to more drastic measures?