[kristian]

I can't seem to access my 320 GB SATA WD drive. However, it does show up in Explorer as an unformatted drive also in Disk management. If I try to access it it asks if I want to format the drive (I didn't obviously).

There were no partitions in this drive.

Drive C is working perfectly fine.

What do I do?!?

I tried TESTDISK but I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I was able to see all my files after a 'deeper search'.

Please help.

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> Mainboard : Intel D865GBF
> Chipset : Intel i865G
> Processor : Intel Pentium 4 @ 2400 MHz
> Physical Memory : 1024 MB (1 x 1024 DDR-SDRAM )
> Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
> Hard Disk : ST380011A (80 GB)
> Hard Disk : WDC (320 GB)
> DVD-Rom Drive : JGR RGXAV0LYB SCSI CdRom Device
> Monitor Type : Philips PHILIPS 107X4 - 17 inches
> Network Card : Broadcom Corp BCM4309 802.11a/b/g
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3
> DirectX : Version 9.0c

[ComputerRepairStpete]

Boot from any of the windows XP cd and go to repair option, there try FDISK command this command will guide you for rest of the process.

[philthomas]

Is this an internal or external drive ?

is there critical data you need to recover ?

[Hybr!d]

FDISK will just repartition it, so will 100% lose everything. Not great advice.

If you want to try and recover data you'll need data recovery software.