Similar situation...
I have a Samsung
SP8004H 80 gig HardDrive. It is typically used as a main harddrive for one of my computers. It had
windows XP Pro installed, and it worked flawlessly, all 80 GB were fine and dandy.
I also used the drive for storing stuff: pictures, movies, (pron SheeHeeHee-heehee :stickout: ), etc etc. Many of the files are very important to me.
From time to time, I used to remove the drive, and plop it on a
USB enclosure, to access the files from a different computer (take my homework to school, etc etc)
One time, I took my HDD and slapped it
inside (not using the enclosure) a
G4 PowerMac (I wasn't able to access the drive properly, to copy some files from the mac to my HDD; the Mac anted me to format it!)... I don't know what, where, why, or how, but my HDD now reads as an unallocated 33GB HardDrive that needs to be formatted, according to PartitionMagic 8.0 and Mac OS X Disk Utility.
I do believe the file format was indeed
NTFS (96+or- 4% sure). Even the
BIOS reads it as a 33GB HDD!!!
It wont boot anymore, as a main drive, on the system I grabbed it from. And as a secondary slave drive on my other WindowsXP machine, Windows
Explorer doesn't even show the drive at all... And
Device Manager reports the drive, as it's proper model name
SP8004H... In the USB Enclosure, windows Explorer does see the drive, but it tells me that I need to format it!!!
Before I try formatting it, I want to know if how I can get my files out of it. Because there are some files there that I
REALLY need to salvage.
I apprecaite all and any help.