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The original poster, paulmars, successfully reinstalled Windows 7 on a 500GB HDD but cannot see their 250GB backup drive, which appears as unallocated in Disk Management. They are seeking advice on how to recover their important files stored on the 250GB drive. The thread mainly focuses on troubleshooting the recognition and recovery of data from the unallocated partition, with the overall concern about restoring access to their backup files.

paulmars

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backed up my files on a 250g HDD

reinstalled win7 on 500g HDD

During install, I ignored the 250 and partitioned the 500g HDD like I have done thousands of times before.
Then choise one of the partitions on the 500G HDD to install wnin7.

Install complete and win 7 is on the proper partition on the 500g HDD. I see the other 500g HDD partitions listed as D and E in the file manager.

However, I dont see the 250g HDD

looking in administrative tools~computer management I see the 250g HDD as unallocated.

Any ideas how i can fix this and get back my important needed files? (these were my backups)

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paulmars

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i had to enter incorrect b-day for it to accept my registration.