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| Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit 446 posts Peterborough, England | It sounds as though the drive may have been corrupted or converted to RAW format. Are you able to connect the drive to a different computer then use Recuva to get your data back? |
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| Dual Boot: Windows 7 Pro & Windows 8 VMs: Kali Linux, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, Windows Server 08 & 12 96 posts | Connect it via USB and see if it becomes visible again. If it shows up, then try recuva. |
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| Windows 7x64 Home Premium SP1 x 2 4,012 posts Australia | Yes but I would have expected that Windows would provide the user the prompt to initialize the disk when detecting a RAW drive??? |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64-Bit 446 posts Peterborough, England | 
Quote: Originally Posted by mjf  Yes but I would have expected that Windows would provide the user the prompt to initialize the disk when detecting a RAW drive??? You really need to get the drive hooked up to another computer and try Recuva. Failing that, you could try a proprietary data recovery service, but that can be expensive. |
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