hard drive formatted on vista says not formatted on my vista pc


  1. zimredavni
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    hard drive formatted on vista says not formatted on my vista pc


    I discovered this issue recently, i bought an external drive case so i can move my internal drive installed on my Vista PC and have it accessible on my Win 7 laptop away from home. I don't understand why the hard drive reads as not initialized or formatted on my win 7 pc. I have two from my vista pc, neither read on my 7 pc.

    Can anyone shed some light on this?

    Also when i moved my hard drive back to my vista PC the drive appeared to be blank and unformatted, the data is not lost but the partition data was lost. I was able to recover my lost data using recovery software (that unfortunately was not free)

    Temporarily I'm formatting the drive on my 7 PC in hopes there will not be future problems like this.

    Oh yeah by Vista PC specs:
    - home built
    Vista Home Premium X64
    Intel i7 920 cpu
    MSI X58 Platinum mobo
    Corsair DDR3-1600 ram
    Seagate SATAII 1.5 TB primary
    Toshiba 2TB secondary (internal)
    Western Digital 3 TB secondary (internal)

    please help
    Last edited by zimredavni; 17 Oct 2014 at 12:41.
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  3. ICIT2LOL
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    Zim mate you would be better posting in the Vista forum (at top of this page) run by the same crew as here.:)
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