Slave drive, Need access without formatting it.

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Bigfatmeany

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I recently had a problem with an install of windows 8 that kept giving me memory management crashes, Well after a month of me not being able to solve the problem trying everything possible, I decided just to take an older 40gb drive, plug it in, and only use it for the windows install.
After confirming this works with no crash, so far at least, I decided to plug in my previous 3tb drive. This HDD does have a version of windows installed on it, but I can't see this being a future problem as I'm not loading into it. Currently windows tells me I need to format my drive to access it, however, I absolutely need the files on this HDD, it's not questionable.
Is there anything I can do to access this drive?
 
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Does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

Yogi

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Yes, Its currently assigned to Z, however in data Management it's listed as RAW file type instead of NTSF(or whatever it is, I cant remember). [/quotemsg]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

If the drive is in the Raw state then you have somehow lost the partition that was there , use the free software that I linked to this post to see if you can recover that original partition.

Yogi


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It was bootable to up to about 3 hours ago after attempting windows auto repair I somehow lost the boot drivers to load into windows,or at least, that's what I got from it and other people on the forums had said happened.If I start my PC, it shows my HDD's and shows the correct amount of space left on the drive, so i'm positive my files are still there.

On a side note, I'm sorry if I seem to be talking in circles, Iv been up for hours attempting to fix the crash I had before, and now this, its just one thing after the other and I havn't gotton any sleep lately because of it.
 
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Does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

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[/quotemsg]

Does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

Yogi

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Yes, Its currently assigned to Z, however in data Management it's listed as RAW file type instead of NTSF(or whatever it is, I cant remember).
 
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Y0GI

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Does the drive have a letter assigned to it?

Yogi

[/quotemsg]

Yes, Its currently assigned to Z, however in data Management it's listed as RAW file type instead of NTSF(or whatever it is, I cant remember). [/quotemsg]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

If the drive is in the Raw state then you have somehow lost the partition that was there , use the free software that I linked to this post to see if you can recover that original partition.

Yogi


 
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Bigfatmeany

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Yes, Its currently assigned to Z, however in data Management it's listed as RAW file type instead of NTSF(or whatever it is, I cant remember). [/quotemsg]

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

If the drive is in the Raw state then you have somehow lost the partition that was there , use the free software that I linked to this post to see if you can recover that original partition.

Yogi


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What exactly will this program do? I have about 700gb's of files to gather, however if this simply restores the partition and it doesn't actually export the files to my current drive, then thats great. However if i need another drive to support the files from the one im using the program on, That may not work, at-least until I can get another drive.
 
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Y0GI

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http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

If the drive is in the Raw state then you have somehow lost the partition that was there , use the free software that I linked to this post to see if you can recover that original partition.

Yogi


[/quotemsg]

What exactly will this program do? I have about 700gb's of files to gather, however if this simply restores the partition and it doesn't actually export the files to my current drive, then thats great. However if i need another drive to support the files from the one im using the program on, That may not work, at-least until I can get another drive.[/quotemsg]

With TestDisk you should be able to restore your missing partition and access all of your files.

Yogi

 
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Bigfatmeany

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What exactly will this program do? I have about 700gb's of files to gather, however if this simply restores the partition and it doesn't actually export the files to my current drive, then thats great. However if i need another drive to support the files from the one im using the program on, That may not work, at-least until I can get another drive.[/quotemsg]

With TestDisk you should be able to restore your missing partition and access all of your files.

Yogi

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Great! Im running it right now! Hopefully this will work.
 
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