Drive not formatted

[Chris]

Drive was formatted and working fine under XP, all of a
sudden XP say's it's RAW and not formatted. 98 Boot
disk, shows the partition and data is fine.

Anyone know how to fix this? Email me at


Thanks!

[NoNoBadDog!]

Sounds as if your MBR/MFT got hosed. Unless you want to spend BIG bucks
trying to recover the data, just bite the bullet and do a wipe and
reinstall.

Bobby

"Chris" > wrote in message
...
> Drive was formatted and working fine under XP, all of a
> sudden XP say's it's RAW and not formatted. 98 Boot
> disk, shows the partition and data is fine.
>
> Anyone know how to fix this? Email me at
>
>
> Thanks!

[Crusty \(-: Old Bastard :-\)]

If the drive went from formatted to RAW there is no chance that anything has
been touched since it happened. I have recovered 100% of desired files when
this happened to me!

Yes, it does cost. But if the files are worth it...???

"NoNoBadDog!" > wrote in message
...
> Sounds as if your MBR/MFT got hosed. Unless you want to spend BIG bucks
> trying to recover the data, just bite the bullet and do a wipe and
> reinstall.
>
> Bobby
>
> "Chris" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Drive was formatted and working fine under XP, all of a
> > sudden XP say's it's RAW and not formatted. 98 Boot
> > disk, shows the partition and data is fine.
> >
> > Anyone know how to fix this? Email me at
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
>
>