Hard drive #2

[Prometheus]

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?

[Jason425]

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

[Prometheus]

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

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

[Jason425]

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

[Prometheus]

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

[Jason425]

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


i guess you could install windows on that 2nd drive

[Dragon]

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.

[vee_ess]

RH will.