TEch advice needed - Hard Drive installation

XabbaRus · 08-03-14, 10:10 AM

Hello,

I wonder if anyone can help.
I have an iOmega network drive, no due to my wife pulling the plug on so she could plug in her curlers it stopped working. My first fear was the whole drive was gone, but after I took off the cover I discovered it is just a Seagate Barracude with a network board attached. Lightbulb!!! So I took the network board off, bought an ATA data cable, a sata - molex power adaptor and installed it into my PC.

Result, XP recognises the drive, I open up disk management, I then remove the existing partitions, and give them back and assign a drive letter to each partition. Now when I was going through the wizard I didn't format the drive. The reason being I have all my music on the drive, plus lots and lots of family photos. I don't want to lose these. The whole point of this is data recovery not to lose it.

However when I click on the new drive letters in My Computer it tells me they are not formatted. Please help, as it was a network drive I'm assuming the disk os already NTFs format and it's still there. So how do I get XP to recognise this.

Attached is a screenshot.

CaptainHaplo · 08-12-14, 04:37 AM

Sadly, you destroyed the data by repartitioning the drive.

Had you just plugged it in and assigned the drive a letter, you would have been ok. Repartitioning the drive makes the data generally unreadable. Now there are ways to get to the data again, but your looking at a lot more in depth work (with specialized tools) than your average user can do. If the data is truly critical, find a shop that does hard drive forensics.

I wish I had better news for you.

XabbaRus · 09-26-14, 05:49 AM

I actually figured what was wrong when using disc recovery software.
As it was a network drive and had reserved partitions for device operation, it was set up for a unix/linux system. That explains why when I first plugged the drive into my PC and before I fiddled with the partitions XP would not access the partitions it saw. I've run recovery software and it sees lots of files but the process takes ages.

08-12-14, 04:37 AM	#2
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	Sadly, you destroyed the data by repartitioning the drive. Had you just plugged it in and assigned the drive a letter, you would have been ok. Repartitioning the drive makes the data generally unreadable. Now there are ways to get to the data again, but your looking at a lot more in depth work (with specialized tools) than your average user can do. If the data is truly critical, find a shop that does hard drive forensics. I wish I had better news for you. __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

09-26-14, 05:49 AM	#3
XabbaRus Navy Seal Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 5,330 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I actually figured what was wrong when using disc recovery software. As it was a network drive and had reserved partitions for device operation, it was set up for a unix/linux system. That explains why when I first plugged the drive into my PC and before I fiddled with the partitions XP would not access the partitions it saw. I've run recovery software and it sees lots of files but the process takes ages. __________________