i reformated windows xp professional sp3 on my hardisk 0 and it went fine but i cant access my 2nd hard disk which i didnt touch, its disk 1 in the screenshot its not showing up in my computer and for some reason its showing up in disk management as 1.7tb when it is only a 1tb and it was originaly 1partition

please help me i need to get stuff off it

what is the model number of the hard drive?

it is a seagate 1tb hard drive im not quite sure of the model number how can i find out

in disk manager under properties it has this "ST31000340AS" im not sure if thats the model number

The Notorious Seagate 7200.11

Can you see if you get the same results in another computer?

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By the way did you have the 1TB hard disk connected to the computer when you reformated and installed windows? Its just that its not a good idea if you don't know what you are doing because os installs have the habit of installing boot loaders accross different hard disks depending on their boot priority in your BIOS.

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Hi,

General rule: Don't trust in windoze!!!
You can safely destroy your data with it.


I have seen this a lot of times.
Your partition table and maybe FS gets corrupted.
If you want your data back, do a sector copy outside of windows, and try to get it from the copy with data recovery softwares.
If no luck, than get the original one into your hands, and ask a pro near you.

This is the best, what i can suggest.

Good luck
Janos

could you please reccomend me a good data recovery software



yes i did, is there any way of fixing it if it did install boot loaders in the wrong spot

I use Data Extractor but its a professional tool worth thousands.



If you data is important I would recommend a pro. If your data is not important try reformatting it or download one of the many so called data recovery programs.

There is a good chance the windows boot loader has been installed to the wrong drive or it has decided to edit the file allocation table.

If you really need assistance just PM me, fellow Aussie.

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thanks for your help everyone i have decided to buy another 1tb hardrive to store all my data on it when i try to recover it using this program http://data-recovery-software-review.to ... eview.html i know my data is still there as i can get atleast some of it using testdisk except i dont have enough room on my current drive