I have a Seagate USB hard drive that I cannot access anymore.
Details:
I use system commander 9 to manage my OS’s, but all I have is XP on the computer as of right now. My primary drive in the laptop has a C and D partition, C is the main XP that I use and D is my other version of XP that I use for gaming. The USB hard drive is not partitioned and contains nothing but drivers and data from work.
I left the computer on all night, and when I got up this morning, I restarted it, and when it came up to SYstem Commander, I got a message that said certain disks could not be accessed. The computer restarted, and I entered into my normal XP OS. When I tried to open my USB drive, I got a message that said Disk is not formatted, Format Now? Upon further investigation, it seems that somehow, my USB drive was formatted to match that of my primary disk. There are two partitions on my primary disk, a 46 Gig and a 10 gig, and now there is two partitions on my usb, a 46 and a 10. The USB drive is 160 Gig.
I do not understand how the USB drive could automatically format itself, overnight.
Is it possible that there is something corrupt in the USB drive? Could system commander have some play in that? How can I recover the data? I do not think the drive is bad, per say, but rather something is preventing Windows from seeing it properly.
