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Can my data be saved before a format on a hard drive?
Hi Guys
I am no expert, so I really need your expertise on this one.
After purchasing a hard drive (internal) for my external media player from Western Digital, I was unable to find my drive on My Computer.
I went through Disk Management and formatted the drive and Viola!!!
I downloaded a software from Western Digital- Acronis thinking I could make my work easy for me, by transferring my old data from the 500 GB drive to the new 2 TB NAS Hard drive.
After spending a day, getting 100 GB of data to be transferred, I am now back to square one. Cannot access the data on My Computer, No drive, no disk showing up. I see it under Disk Management. I also know the data transferred over, as I connected the player to my TV, and the files showed up.
My concern, is that I need to access it on my PC so that I can make a folder system, for the various data I have.
Is there a way of getting this data, without losing it if I do the format again.
I am under the impression that it has to do with the GPT and MBR when formatting was done, and then changed with using Acronis
Please HELP!