I recently converted one of my hard drives from FAT32 to NTFS using Windows Xp tool. Now I amunable to access the drive. It is still shwoing as a local drive but with 0 bytes used and 0 bytes free. The computer can ''see'' the drive but I can't access it. It says File System:RAW Does anyone have any idea how I can get this drive back. It contains ALL my music from the past 2 1/2 years and obviously don't want to lose the info on it. ANY help with this would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks in advance for any help.

Sounds to me as if you've inadvertantly formatted your drive as NTFS. You cannot format a drive to the NTFS file system without deleting everything on the drive. Big mistake.

actually, you can convert a FAT32 formatted drive to NTFS without loss of data. however, when you converted your drive, the Master File Table (MFT) was corrupted. the only option you have now to get to the data on your drive is using data recovery software.

This just happened to some of my systems at work. I run NTFS and w2k on all my systems. The C:\ drive changed to RAW out of nowhere on one of my systems. I could see the data using the recovery console on the w2k cd, but not through the OS. I installed the drive as a slave in another computer and it jacked that file system up also. I thought for sure I was dealing with a virus. Long story short, I had to remove the drive, install it in an external drive case via Firewire, convert to FAT32 using Partition Magic to retrieve the data and back it up before deleting the partition, formatting the drive, and reinstalling the OS. The FAT32 removed the security permissions that wouldn't let me do anything while it was NTFS. I scanned the drive after converting it and it found no virus.