Hard drive #2
 

I reformatted my primary hard drive and reinstalled windows....I didnt touch anything else...

My 2nd harddrive is now wanting me to reformat it ...........

Before doing so I have several programs and misc things I need to get ....


How can I go about recovering it?

Linux boot cd?

how does a hard drive "want" you to reformat it.. just boot the first one and drag and drop the files off of the 2nd

Im booted in windows.........

But it wants me to format it in order to view everything.......

That doesn't make sense.. error message? pic?

"This drive needs to be formatted. Do you want to format it now?"

i've only seen that on floppies...... what's wrong with it?


i guess you could install windows on that 2nd drive

no thats true, i got that when i did different partitions, i have 2 drives, with a total of 5 partitions (dont ask, i made an extra on accident, i was in a hurry). anyway, one of the partitions wanted to be formatted, it was the only one on the drive in NTFS, the others were FAT32 and ext3. anyway, was it a boot drive at anytime? id just set it as the master and take your old drive out. then use a CD burner. or find a version of linux that will read NTFS, but i dont know of any.

RH will.