Help!

[Spicker]

my friend's old computer crashed and he had lots of songs on it. So he brought the hdd to my place and i plugged it in and everything the hdd is spinning but i cant see it in My Computer

so i went to Computer Management (ControlPannel>Admin. Tools>comp.management) and there it detects the hdd but it says "Unallocated"

is the harddrive wiped out? how can i access the files on there now? :helpsmile:

thanx in advance

[Spicker]

also if i allocate it using Partition Magic will the data be lost?? :helpsmile:

[peat moss]

Originally posted by jaigandhi5@9 August 2004 - 10:58
also if i allocate it using Partition Magic will the data be lost?? :helpsmile:

It sounds like its empty already. Try a program like this? the bear has it on his site.

http://www.uneraser.com/

[Spicker]

well i made it in to a partition but didnt check the option "format" so its in my computer now but when i double click it says this hdd hasnt been formatted or something...

and tells me to format

ill try the program later thanx

[Virtualbody1234]

well i made it in to a partition but didnt check the option

Well if you partitioned it the data is gone.

[Spicker]

Originally posted by Virtualbody1234@9 August 2004 - 23:13

well i made it in to a partition but didnt check the option

Well if you partitioned it the data is gone.

doh!

i thought if i didnt check format the data would have still been there

so 800songs all gone

[TheRealDave]

Originally posted by jaigandhi5+10 August 2004 - 00:17--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (jaigandhi5 @ 10 August 2004 - 00:17)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Virtualbody1234@9 August 2004 - 23:13

well i made it in to a partition but didnt check the option

Well if you partitioned it the data is gone.

doh&#33;

i thought if i didnt check format the data would have still been there

so 800songs all gone [/b][/quote]
Sounds like they were pretty much gone to start with.

[peat moss]

Back up , back up, back up, For the cost of a few cdr&#39;s or another hd , its just common sence.

[Spicker]

ill still try the uneraser thing tomorrow.. u never know...

[lynx]

You have probably set the bios parameters differently from your friends original settings.

There are different options (LBA, CHS etc) and there give different disk layouts. It is possible that if you had changed the options you may have seen the original partition table, but I think that is unlikely now that you have partitioned it.