External Hard-drive

Mesix

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Apr 20, 2005
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So, a half hour ago my mom calls me from the other side of the country and (waking me up) asks why her external hard drive won't show up in windows.


A little back story:

From what I understand, this computer uses a mirroring raid-array, and that somehow got hosed in the bios and the raid controller was trying to boot thinking it was a striped array. Anyhow, my mom fixed it (herself!), but after reformatting and such, she couldn't get the external that was connected with a lot of data to be recognized.

I told her the usual pluh-unplug it since it was usb, but when she told me it had all her data from a previous install, I asked her if this computer was running XP Pro. It is.

So, not having experiance with XP Pro, I have come here. Will she ever be able to recover the data on this external drive?