I reformatted my primary hard drive, then connected my secondary 'storage' drive but it said "this drive is not formatted, would you like to format it now" when I selected i in 'my computer', i do not want to format it cos i really need the stuff on it. I have tried so much, but I cant seem to access the partition at all.

Here is a screenshot of the computer management window. Its the second disk that is (Disk1) where the problem lies.


I really need ot recover the data on the drive. I dont see why it should be gone. If anyone has any suggestions i would be so grateful.

Thank you
Phil

Hi and welcome to D-A-L


What have you got on disc 1?

according to your screenshot you have (E) 128.00GB capacity with 128.00GB Free and (F) 151.47 GB capacity with 151.47 GB Free

so you don't seem to have anything on there

yup, nothing there, though its all sorted. A friend gave me a data recovery programme and everything is saved

Glad you're sorted