say they aren't formatted. One drive has 500GB of data on it. Can I recover that data or is it gone since I have re-installed Windows?
Answer #1 you are missing the problem. The problem is that after I re-installed Windows the SATA drives are showing up as unformatted. Everytime I try to access data on the drive it asks me if I want to format it.
mark
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You should be able to recover the drives unless they were formatted when you reinstalled windows .
Are you certain that you loaded all the required drivers ?
f100_supersabre
The problem with the newer versions of windows, is that when you reinstall, they LOSE all the references to EVERYTHING else on the system.
Since it finds the drives, you know they are working; however, your new install is NOT finding the information that these drives are formatted and contain data, so apparently it is NOT reading the drive tables correctly.
This may have to do with the fact that they are SATA drives, or it could have to do with a windows problem.
Anonymous
you can still get it back because when you reinstall windows all do is reinstall the OS. The files will be under whatever hard drive it is on or if it is the internat one it will be under (C:Documents and settings) and then the old computer file will stored and EX)bob-Computer1 or else it will show what you named the computer like the name you put in during the windows inital set up.
joshi
in case you're which skill are you able to boot off of the IDE stressful force and get entry to the Sata force, the respond is confident. only connect the SATA stressful force, and make confident the BIOS settings are set besides from the IDE force.