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Originally Posted by Neuromancer

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.

No its just irratating when u have a simple problem like this and i have to go through all this hassel to get perfectly fine data back! I mean lets hire other people to do jobs cheaper and and spend hours on the phone to explain something. Plus this isnt my job nor am i getting paid to type a non coherent sentence!!!!