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Hard Drive Problems - Please Read For Details
I apologize for the brief title and for this being in the wrong category if it is.
I recently purchased an 8 bay external hard drive tower (similar to a Drobo). I have 4 external drives I removed from their enclosures and installed in the tower. When I installed 4 of the hard drives my computer only recognized two of them.
I went into my disk management and assigned a drive letter to the 2 drives it did not recognize. When given the option to format them, I chose "no" because they contained data.
Windows now sees the devices with a drive letter, but each time I double click on that drive it tell me I need to format it before use. If I do so, I will loose the existing data.
I have downloaded a trial of a data recovery software and it sees the data that is on the disk (don't ask me how).
How do I get the data off the drive without formatting the disk?
Please help. This is my life's work.
Thank you.