

Of course I do not do it but I have all my files backed up there and I don't know how to retrieve them. In a Windows Explorer window when I click on the drive letter of the problem drive, a window opens asking me if I want to format this drive and that it is not formatted. The 30 GB partition of the same drive is apparently unaffected. I'm not exactly sure when it happened but all of a sudden my computer was unable to view any of the files on that partition of the slave drive. I moved all of my data files from my primary C drive to the 130GB partition of the slave and I was just doing some other things to get ready for the process.

I have a large capacity slave drive (160 GB)that I previously partitioned into a 130 and a 30 GB drive.

I was in the process of getting my pc ready for an XP-home re-installation in order to clean up some things on my computer.
