Hard Drive not recognized

[Justin]

I just reformatted my Windows XP Home Machine. Before
the format, I moved some files to my second hard drive.
After the formatting, I can see the hard drive on My
Computer, but it says it needs to be formatted. Can
anyone help me recover these lost files?

[Rich Barry]

Do you have a conflict between NTFS and FAT32? Are they all formatted
with the same File System?

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"Justin" > wrote in message
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> I just reformatted my Windows XP Home Machine. Before
> the format, I moved some files to my second hard drive.
> After the formatting, I can see the hard drive on My
> Computer, but it says it needs to be formatted. Can
> anyone help me recover these lost files?

[NoNoBadDog!]

You need to go into disk management and initialize the disk.

Bobby

"Justin" > wrote in message
...
> I just reformatted my Windows XP Home Machine. Before
> the format, I moved some files to my second hard drive.
> After the formatting, I can see the hard drive on My
> Computer, but it says it needs to be formatted. Can
> anyone help me recover these lost files?

[Justin]

Yes, both of my drives were formatted in NTFS, and woking
fine before the format.


>-----Original Message-----
> Do you have a conflict between NTFS and FAT32? Are
they all formatted
>with the same File System?
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>"Justin" > wrote in message
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>> I just reformatted my Windows XP Home Machine. Before
>> the format, I moved some files to my second hard drive.
>> After the formatting, I can see the hard drive on My
>> Computer, but it says it needs to be formatted. Can
>> anyone help me recover these lost files?
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