HardDrive problem please help!

TeenageRiot

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Feb 20, 2004
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Hey everyone, I need your help. Any thoughts on it besides "noob" or some crap bashing me appriciated!

System information background related to my question:
2 raptors 36 gig 10,000 rpm (in s-ata in raid 0)
2 regular IDE drivers 76 gigs each containing data

Couple of days ago I formated and tried reinstalling windows, but for some reason, I got the urge to mess with the jumpers on the 2 IDE drives ( several times, dont asky why ) and in the end I installed windows. The raid drivers work fine, but my two IDE drivers now say theres nothing on the drives and when I try to access either of them i get the message in windows saying "This Drive is not formatted, would you like to format now?" Is it possible that all the information on the drives was erased with my tempering with the jumpers on the 2 drives? I didn't format either , that's for sure. And is there a way I could fix it, a program or anything? I had about 9,000 files that I hold dear to me on one of them (its not porn or anything related to porn) It would mean the world to me if I could get atleast half of them back. Please help me!

The jumpers settings are back to how there were, one is master w/slave, and the other is slave. I tried different settings also, no change. I am clueless now, thx for reading.
 

Brule

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Apr 23, 2004
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A quick check, are all the drives NTFS now and were they all before? I assume you're reinstalling XP?
 

Brule

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Okay, sorry if I'm being overly simplistic, but these problems are usually simple. First, what BIOS are you using and does it recognize all the drives correctly? Secondly, assumeing the bios reads them fine, do you have partition magic available? It does a good job of indentifying problems that integrated XP can't.

Edit: Seems to be many similar stories on other forums... hoping to see an answer.