partition disappears xp

jedge78

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Hi,
I just installed XP on my system (used to have me). I have two hardrives. I formatted the first one and installed XP on that drive. The other drive, which I used for storage and backup, appears in my computer but when I try to open it, XP asks me to format the drive. When I select the drive, and check out the properties, it says that it is RAW format. Is there any way to access the information on this drive?

Thanx Guys
 

Lars_Coleman

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Try booting to a DOS prompt using a Millennium startup disk. From there see if you can access the partition information ...

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