Can't access old hard drive after new SSD and Windows 7 install

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  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #1

    Can't access old hard drive after new SSD and Windows 7 install


    Hey guys this is my first time posting, after searching the web I've found problems similar to this but no clear answers on fixing. I recently purchased a new Mother Board (Gigabyte G1.Guerrilla) not really thinking about the repercussions of changing such a large component. I hooked everything up and of course windows would not load. I did not want to do a clean install as I have 3 years worth of pictures and video on my hard drive. So I looked at this as an opportunity to purchase a new Corsair 60gb SSD.

    My thinking was I can use this as by OS drive and would then still be able to access and use the files on my original Seagate 750gb mechanical drive as a data drive. After a couple of hiccups with the Windows installation, (done without the Seagate installed) everything was installed. I then turned off the PC hooked up the second HDD up via SATA II and windows booted fine after setting boot order.

    Now when I click on My Computer it shows my SSD fine, but the older HDD shows as a generic disc drive. When I click on it, it says something about being an unsupported or unrecognized file system and asks if I would like to format now? Which I obviously don't want to do. I also have an issue with SATA III but thats for a different post.

    Here's my setup:

    intel Core i7-920
    Gigabyte g1.guerrilla
    6gb Corsair XMS 1333 Ram
    PNY GTX 470 1.25gb
    60gb Corsair Force 3
    750gb Seagate Barracuda

    Any help would be appreciated!
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  2. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #2

    Hi CommZod and welcome to the forum!

    For starters, could you go to Disk Management, maximize the window and post a screenshot of it here?

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  3. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Here's what it looks like in Disk Management
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  4. Posts : 1,114
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #4

    The reason it's not showing is because the file sys say's RAW and needs to be NTFS but i'm not sure how to change it. Don't do anything drastic until someone answers on how to change it.
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  5. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    Im not touching anything until I know what to do! My wife would kill me if I lost all pictures on there!
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  6. Posts : 1,114
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
       #6

    Gooood point:)
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  7. Posts : 2,528
    Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
       #7

    It sounds like you did everything right. The only problem I ever get doing that exact thing is that the drive will show up as "Forein" and you have to "Import" it and then it's fine. But the drive is already imported from the looks of it. Saying the format is "RAW" is worrying...

    My guess is that you will be looking at using a drive recovery tool to try to repair the formatting and get the data off or at least backed up. The drive wasn't bitlockered or encrypted with tru-crypt or anything? Just a plain ol NTFS drive?
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  8. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #8

    yep, just a plain drive. Any good suggestions on a recovery tool?
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  9. whs
    Posts : 26,210
    Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
       #9

    This is not a good scenario. I would try to pull the data off with a live Linux CD. Too bad you did not backup your "precious" data in the first place. Once you were able to recover your files you can reformat that disk in NTFS and put the files back.

    Here is a Linux program I have used previously: Computer First Aid Using Knoppix
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  10. Posts : 1,781
    Windows 7 Professional SP1 32-bit
       #10

    A good first step would be trying Recuva on the harddisk - I've seen others have the same problem (filesystem suddenly becoming RAW) and Recuva always seemed to enable them to get all their files off.

    Another option is to attempt a partition recovery/repair with Partition Wizard. Again, others having this problem have reported that PW started finding and repairing errors until at some point Windows started seeing the filesystem again.
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