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If you are running with an administrative account, it should be there. If it is not, and you are running from an administrative account, your only option may be to use the iCare Format Recovery link I gave you. Just make sure you restore the drive's contents to a different drive than the drive you are restoring from.
The only problem is that the drive still does not have a drive letter. Try permissions again, click on properties, then the sharing tab, make sure the check box at the top left is checked where it says share, type everyone into the next box and under permissions make sure the permissions are read and write, click apply/Ok and OK your way out.
I don't know what the issue is. But, I have 2 external Seagate drives. Both came formatted NTFS, so unless he changed the format they should be formatted that way already. He has already tried icare in post#5. Frankly, I am not sure what the problem is, I am just trying to force the drive to accept a drive letter. If that can be done, we should be able to find out the problem and fix it.
Can he access the drive through the command prompt in Administrator Mode? Sometimes this works, too. I guess he would have to have a drive letter for that, too. I will see what more I can find, as well.
There is a tool for fixing the MBR, which a corrupted or deleted MBR can cause a drive to show up as RAW. Free Partition Recovery Software - Partition Recovery Freeware to undelete partition, recover deleted or lost partitions. and Program - Fixboot - Partition Table Doctor Manual
He can see the drive in diskpart, but it wouldn't let him assign it a drive letter. Just for a shot in the dark, try going back into diskpart and select partition 2 and try to assign it a drive letter. It appears that partition 1 is system reserved and is protected, so maybe partition 2 which is where the data should be will work.
right i`ve got a drive letter assign but still no joy with opening it, still asking to format the drive.
one other thing i just tried using ubuntu but my keyboard gets disabled when i go to use it, any ideas on that?