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xpac



Joined: 23 Jun 2006
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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:09 pm    Post subject: I'm about to have a stroke.... Reply with quote

My main computer has two hard drives, the second being a data drive. I have an old hard drive that is laying around, and I wanted to check it to make sure there was nothing on it I wanted so I swapped it out with the second data drive. Once I was done, I shut down and put the original second/data drive back in. Well, Windows XP now says that the drive is "not initialized" and "unallocated". Seriously, what is going on? This is a month old drive, had NTFS and was working fine. I have about 200 GB of data on this drive that I would like to have back, and since it is pratically brand new I have not had a chance to back it up yet. Is there any way to save this drive? Seriously I'm so friggin angry right now, I doubt I'll ever buy another Microsoft product again, seriously this is a load of crap.

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jezzer256



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Location: Worthing, West Sussex

Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure you've installed it as a secondary drive rather than another primary one?

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