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unrecognized USB drive after installing software on another computer

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While installing software this morning on my wife’s new “surface pro 2”, I used my portable USB where I save lots of data. After installing some software a reboot was required. I did not unplug the USB drive. Once the computer was restarted, my USB drive read as “local drive D”, a format is required to use the drive. Panic set it.

I immediately we to disk management and changed the drive letter, and rebooted the machine, and then I check to ensure that all of the newest updates had been performed. They were ---- I started up the drive it still read: local drive “D” reformat before using. I need that data, I hope there is a workaround. I believe that during the reboot, Win 8.1 must have written something to registry (NOT sure why) but I need to access that drive!!!!!!

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ID: 396529522013-11-16

what drive is it?

best use a recovery soft to get your data, here a few links, free, or commercial
http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm      pc Inspector -FREE -
      http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/standard            FREE - Recuva
      http://www.stellarinfo.com/                              Stellar
http://www.runtime.org/                              GetDataBack
http://www.ontrack.com/                              Ontrack
http://www.recovermyfiles.com/                              RecoverMyFiles

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