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Unallocated Sata Drive although it has information in it
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Sun Sep 25, 2011 12:58 amby Juancho19
I recently installed Win 7 on my PC. I used to have XP. I have a HDD IDE, the one is running Win7. I also I have a 2TB sata drive that I use as a slave. Before I installed Win 7. The Sata drive was working fine until I reformatted the Hdd and installed Win 7. Now my HDD does no show on MY Computer screen. I have all my important information in that Hard Drive. When I go to the disk manager, it shows the drive, but it says unallocated. What I do, do not want to lose my data. Thanks!!
Re: Unallocated Sata Drive although it has information in it
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Sun Sep 25, 2011 1:00 pmby liljim
Id try to connect it to a different port and see if it recognizes it.
Re: Unallocated Sata Drive although it has information in it
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 3:09 amby computertechled
try to boot from a live cd like linux example ubuntu it should show you your information try to load it into another hard drive then fix that problem, then use a data recovery software
Re: Unallocated Sata Drive although it has information in it
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Sat Oct 08, 2011 4:24 amby icecube
Hi Juancho19
In the disk managment picture, the hard drive is listed as Dynamic. Did you created a dynamic disk system with your previous install, using two hard drives? If your answered is yes, it doesn't look good.
If you did not set the system up as dynamic, this could be an error. Your best bet would be to buy a usb hard drive case and try to hook it up and see if you can see the drive.