Hi, there's this crashed harddisk with NT OS that is detected by the BIOS and Disk Administrator, but cannot been seen in Windows Explorer with a drive letter assigned. Disk Administrator sees it as unformatted with no file system whatsoever which is strange because a repair was done on the operating system only a few minutes earlier. The customer is breathing down our necks to recover his data but what do we do when we can't even see the drive from explorer to do a back-up? Please Help!!!

You can try to download some special programs that can recover data. or you could give it to the FBI

hello linda you might try d/l ntfs dos pro. it should let you acsees it files. and winternals has other programs as well some of witch might help. and theres ontrac data international. they have some good data recovery programs.might get a trial vierion of these. but with a shop in the long run with so many computers useing ntfs it might be a good invest ment to get one of these. there are many other programs for recovering and seeing data in ntfs.

Step 1: Find out what kindof drive is it. Manufacturer. THen go to manufacturers site and download their disk utility program. For example : Western Digital has "Lifeline Tools". Step 2:Once you get that, you put another hard drive in the system (preferably same brand). The utility will let you copy the whole drive onto the new drive. Theres an option for that. Step 3: Now take the new drive and put it in a system that has NT (otherwise you still wont see the data). Boot up to NT and you should be able to read the file system. HOPEITHELPS. Bobby

if all fails try www.computer-recovery.com