when I formatted my C:Drive using Win XP Home, I found that my D:Drive changed to RAW, now when I check on it XP wants me to Format that drive which I dont want to because I have lots of Photographs on it and now I cannot get into them as there are no bytes in the 80 gig Hard Drive is there anyway I can recover these Photographs there is about 20 gigs of Photographs, Please Help...

I would use a knoppix live cd to see if the drive could be accessed or if it also says raw. It used to be that bios settings changing the type of drive could cause that, but that has not been the case for a number of years. Kind of difficult to tell from here. I know that some older computers did need an overlay program to confuse the bios into letting a larger drive work. Not sure your system would be that old. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

If using knoppix doesn't help, I would suggest a file recovery program. Here are a couple that work fairly well: PC Inspector (freeware) http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pcinsp... Zero assumption Recovery http://www.z-a-recovery.com The demo is limited It will only recover 'up to' four folders per run But you can make multiple runs GetDataBack works 'really' well, if your files are important enough to spend some bucks. http://www.runtime.org/ You will need another hard drive, optical drive, or whatever to copy the files to.

Try what jefro suggested. Sounds like your D drive may have been formatted as a dynamic drive. If Knoppix is not able to recover your files then: Google for the phrase "recovering data from a dynamic disk" or "recovering data from a RAW disk", without the quotes. DO NOT WRITE TO THE DISK.