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MovedGoalPosts · 28-03-2008, 22:03

I'm not saying you won't be able to use the drives again, after a format. I'm suggesting a way out of the problem which is recovery to an external drive. OK a 1 TB external drive might well be costly, but in the absence of any other solution, if the data is important, it might be worth it.

I have to say that the only time I've had a major concern over data was when a RAID type setting was in use, that corrupted, leaving me without access to the drives. RAID relies on hardware and software. Too many permutations for things messing up.

Any important data needs to be backed up. You can't rely on just one Hard Disk.

28-03-2008, 22:03	#18
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: New PC not recognising 2 of my 3 hard drives, showing as "unreadable" in Windows. I'm not saying you won't be able to use the drives again, after a format. I'm suggesting a way out of the problem which is recovery to an external drive. OK a 1 TB external drive might well be costly, but in the absence of any other solution, if the data is important, it might be worth it. I have to say that the only time I've had a major concern over data was when a RAID type setting was in use, that corrupted, leaving me without access to the drives. RAID relies on hardware and software. Too many permutations for things messing up. Any important data needs to be backed up. You can't rely on just one Hard Disk.