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   atec 77 <"atec to All   
   Re: Hard Drive Problem in XP Pro   
   13 Jan 10 18:47:13   
   
   From: 77"@hotmail.com   
      
   J wrote:   
   > Win XP Pro is saying that my second hard drive that I have set up as a slave   
   > is not formatted & is asking me to format it. That drive was orginally   
   > formated with the NTFS file system.  That drive was accessible a few days   
   > ago with all my data on it.  Here's what i've tried so far.  I ran chkdsk on   
   > the main drive to make sure there wasn't a problem but it didn't work.  The   
   > drive still shows up in bios & device mgr with no problems.  I ran fdisk &   
   > it wasn't showing up there.  Is there a way I can get the data off that   
   > drive without paying somebody at a computer shop to do it?   
   >   
   Go find a copy of the latest hiens cd and use it for boot , read the   
   drive and save what you need   
     I suspect the version of ntfs used on the drive is different to the   
   one in use now   
      
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