re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:54 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by C K (6910 messages posted) The drive is damaged or more likely, corrupted. That's why Windows thinks it isn't formatted. Corruption can happen for no understandable reason at all, at least to us humans. At this point, you need recovery software to see if anything can be rescued. IME, it will be a waste of time trying to do anything else. There are many recovery utilities/programs around, some better than others. I've tried almost all of the free ones with mixed results depending on how bad the damage is. I use the software from here: www.atl-datarecovery.com It is try before you buy so you can see if anything can be recovered. Some of the free ones will work to but I don't get into referring those as they can also do more damage sometimes. Good Luck!! Written in response to: re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:08 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 4:42 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:16 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:21 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:08 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (C K: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:54 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 10:04 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (MartinM: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:31 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (arney: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:31 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:01 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:39 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (alex: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 5:37 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum