Sorry for the dramatic subject, but I feel a bit panicky right now.
I just plugged my 8 Gb Seagate HD, into my family computer and wanted to open a file I'd saved on it for school.
I double click on D and the first thing I notice is that it's unnamed, the second thing I notice is that windows wants me to format the drive.
Everything was fine when I mounted it on my SuSe machine and copied some stuff off it. After that I didn't use it any more for a while and now I want to use it again and suddenly it's unformatted.
I tried to mount it on my (now Debian, in a fit of anger I threw SuSe away as it wouldn't let me install Mplayer) Linux machine, but it says that there are no valid partitions on it.
Partition Magic, Debian Linux and Windows all say the drive is just dandy, except that it is unformatted and windows adds that it would be thrilled to do the formatting for me.
This off course is not what I want. I WANT MY DATA BACK! Can anyone offer me any suggestions as to what to do now?
I can handle windows not recognising a drive or finding error with it, but I'm baffled as to what to do now.
Oh and by the way, when I try to scan it with an updated Norton, it seems to find 22 files on the disk.
Partition magic has the following to say:
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Partition Information for Disk 2: 8,205.1 Megabytes
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Volume </td><td>PartType</td><td>Status</td><td>Size MB </td><td>PartSect</td><td>#</td><td>StartSect</td><td>TotalSects</td></tr><tr>
<td></td><td>Unallocated</td><td>Pri</td><td>7.8 </td><td>None</td><td>--</td><td>63</td><td>16,002</td>
</tr><tr><td></td><td>ExtendedX</td><td>Pri</td><td>8,197.2 </td><td>0</td><td>0</td><td>16,065</td><td>16,787,925
</tr><tr><td></td> <td>EPBR</td><td>Log</td><td>8,197.2</td><td>None</td><td>--</td><td>16,065</td><td>16,787,925</td>
</tr><tr><td>D:</td><td>FAT32</td><td>Log</td><td>8,197.2 </td><td>16,065</td><td>0</td><td>16,128</td><td>16,787,862</tr></table>