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Try changing the SATA cable first. If no improvement, GetDataBack for NTFS should be able to recover the data. Download the demo to view, buy to recover. Avoid chkdsk. It may recover the file system but is likely to destroy the files.<br />
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Chris B
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Try changing the SATA cable first. If no improvement, GetDataBack for NTFS should be able to recover the data. Download the demo to view, buy to recover. Avoid chkdsk. It may recover the file system but is likely to destroy the files.

Chris B

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after the recovery, you may try to convert the file system from device manager.<br />
&nbsp;if this is not possible, use the disk utilities from &nbsp;: <a href="http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287" rel="ugc">http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287</a><br />
to test and initialise your disk
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after the recovery, you may try to convert the file system from device manager.
 if this is not possible, use the disk utilities from  : http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 [http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287]
to test and initialise your disk

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thanks for the info - very good to know
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Several weeks ago I went to access a secondary SATA drive on my Vista box to pull some images. When I clicked on it the error came up stating it was 'not accessible'.<br />
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The drive will not format, read, write or anything that I can tell. It shows as healthy in disk manager, but RAW file system instead of the NTFS it was formatted in.<br />
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Any help in recovering this data would be tremendous.<br />
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Thanks,<br />
Chris
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Several weeks ago I went to access a secondary SATA drive on my Vista box to pull some images. When I clicked on it the error came up stating it was 'not accessible'.

The drive will not format, read, write or anything that I can tell. It shows as healthy in disk manager, but RAW file system instead of the NTFS it was formatted in.

Any help in recovering this data would be tremendous.

Thanks,
Chris

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