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Oh boy. Please tell me I can save this drive. USB to SATA nightmare.
Ok, so I bought a WD My Book Essential 3TB, and copied about 1TB of information over it. Then I took that 1TB drive and used it in a Tivo hard drive upgrade, so that data is gone.
Now I took the 3TB hard drive out and plugged it into my server as a standard SATA drive.
Windows 7 did not recognize it. It asked do you want to initialize. I said yes as a MBR. I read that it wouldn't cause an issue with erasing data, I hope this is true. At this point I did not do anything further as there was when nothing was showing in Windows Explorer. I did see that there was something that I could allocate as a Simple Volume or something like that.
Freaking out, I took it out and put it back in the USB enclosure and of course, it doesn't work there either, and Disk Manager shows all the space on it as unallocated.
Is there a way to get me out of this mess to save the data on this drive? Please tell me there is a way.
Thanks for your help.