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Franzz · 12-18-2008, 02:15 PM

Hello:
I will really appreciate any help on this issue please.
I have a PC Sony Vaio RC110 with Win XP.
I had 2 drives installed. Originally PC came with one Samsung 250 Gb but I added one WD 150 GB since is faster.
I had SATA0 - WD 150Gb and all installed like windows and all.
SATA1 was the older s\Samsung. I left it as a back up drive or additional drive so my sistem was using WD 150GB to load windows and programs.
I had a problem yesterday with a virus and I ran norton and delete several virus but later, I turned off my PC and pc wont started windows again. No sound or beep ..........
So, I switched drives and returned my older hard drive to SATA0 to make the recovery process and put my pc as oem factory. I did it and everything fine so I wanted to recover my data from my WD 150gb so I put it on SATA1 and started system but now system tells me detected a new hard drive and cant see anything......when I want to browse tells me need to format and if I check contents system shows me o bytes ......

is there any way i can see all my info in that drive without format it ?
Probably i am doing something bad .......I am new on this ......have some computer knowledges but thats all ...........i will really apprecuate any help on this matter........

Regards
Frank

12-18-2008, 02:15 PM	#1 (permalink)
Franzz Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Win XP	Please HELP -- Hard Drive not shown Hello: I will really appreciate any help on this issue please. I have a PC Sony Vaio RC110 with Win XP. I had 2 drives installed. Originally PC came with one Samsung 250 Gb but I added one WD 150 GB since is faster. I had SATA0 - WD 150Gb and all installed like windows and all. SATA1 was the older s\Samsung. I left it as a back up drive or additional drive so my sistem was using WD 150GB to load windows and programs. I had a problem yesterday with a virus and I ran norton and delete several virus but later, I turned off my PC and pc wont started windows again. No sound or beep .......... So, I switched drives and returned my older hard drive to SATA0 to make the recovery process and put my pc as oem factory. I did it and everything fine so I wanted to recover my data from my WD 150gb so I put it on SATA1 and started system but now system tells me detected a new hard drive and cant see anything......when I want to browse tells me need to format and if I check contents system shows me o bytes ...... is there any way i can see all my info in that drive without format it ? Probably i am doing something bad .......I am new on this ......have some computer knowledges but thats all ...........i will really apprecuate any help on this matter........ Regards Frank