I'm missing a hard drive

[Brian]

A few days ago my computer turned off, and I got a
message, press any key to reboot. I hit a key and nothing
happened and the same message came up. So I gave my
computer a cold boot, it loaded back up, and I got a new
message, it sead some thing like start up failed back up
data and replace hard disk. So I replaced my master
drive. I installed XP on the new master and all is well
with that hard drive. However I back up all my data on my
slave drive. I can't open the slave drive now. It appears
in my computer and disk manager, but if I click on it it
asks me to format. How can I open and retrive my data
before formating my slave drive?

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

What is it's designation in disk manager? Is it "healthy"?

You will need 3rd party tools to recover files from this drive. I have used
EasyRecovery Professional and am 100% satisfied. About 3-4 weeks ago I lost
2 drives while rebooting a Win2K system. Both drives were there but they
were shown as not having any partitions (each had one). I was able to
recover 100% of my files. Then, I installed new logical partitions on each
drive and copied the files back to where they were supposed to be.

"Brian" > wrote in message
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> A few days ago my computer turned off, and I got a
> message, press any key to reboot. I hit a key and nothing
> happened and the same message came up. So I gave my
> computer a cold boot, it loaded back up, and I got a new
> message, it sead some thing like start up failed back up
> data and replace hard disk. So I replaced my master
> drive. I installed XP on the new master and all is well
> with that hard drive. However I back up all my data on my
> slave drive. I can't open the slave drive now. It appears
> in my computer and disk manager, but if I click on it it
> asks me to format. How can I open and retrive my data
> before formating my slave drive?