Cannot read back-up harddrive

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I'm running XP Pro and have a WD 80GB HD as a slave. The harddrive appears as
a lettered drive but when I click on it, the message states the drive is not
formatted. I have checked all the jumpers. I have run BinaryBiz Virtual lab
against the drive and it says my files are there (unfortunately, this company
wants big $$ to recover these files). I have run cgsecurity Testdisk, Norton
and other types of disk checking s/w and all tell me the drive is ok. Yet, it
still acts like it is not formatted and I cannot access the files. Any
guidance would be appreciated!

 

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I'm running XP Pro and have a WD 80GB HD as a slave. The harddrive appears as
a lettered drive but when I click on it, the message states the drive is not
formatted. I have checked all the jumpers. I have run BinaryBiz Virtual lab
against the drive and it says my files are there (unfortunately, this company
wants big $$ to recover these files). I have run cgsecurity Testdisk, Norton
and other types of disk checking s/w and all tell me the drive is ok. Yet, it
still acts like it is not formatted and I cannot access the files. Any
guidance would be appreciated!

Do a search on the internet for NTFSDOS - this will create a boot disk
that can access NTFS partitions. Boot to that disk and you should be
able to see the other hard drive's folders and files and copy them over
to the primary drive.

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