One should not criticize others speaking ability, when one can not type a coherent sentence.
Initializing a drive will not cause it to lose data. Formatting a drive will. A windows format however is not really a low level format and is still recoverable with any data recovery software.
I like NTFS recover, it is not free, but it is cheap. The more expensive versions of recovery software will try and preserve filenames and folders. I can't recommend one off hand but google will point you to a software and there may even be free data recovery apps out now. (probably not though since it is a HUGE and over paid business).
The application that used to start when you plugged in via USB was triggered by the autoplay service in windows. Internal drives should not have this flaw, so the application would need to be manually triggered once the partition is viewable within windows.
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Last edited by Neuromancer; 05-16-2010 at 02:25 PM.
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