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    Windows 7 Installed W7 on 1 hard drive - 2nd harddrive has lost data and now RAW format?

    Hi Have i7 with Hardisks. Disk 1 has Windows 7 installed successfully. The other 3 disks are data disks. 2 of the 3 data disks are fine but 1 has somehow messed up. The problem is the data disk which is/was 200gb seems to have converted itself to a RAW disk in data manager and in the...
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    • backup computer issues corruption data access data integrity data loss data recovery disk management disk recovery external drive filesystem formatting hard drive ntfs raw format storage troubleshooting windows 7
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    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows Vista Disc Check reformatted my HD!

    I ran disc check (Vista SP1) on my 2nd drive where my docs are, set to run after reboot. AFter the reboot my 2nd drive had been reset to a RAW format rather than the NTFS that it was previously and, of course, all my files had disappeared. I am currently running a disk retrieval tool as it has...