dunstonchecksin Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 Alright, I'm not really the best when it comes to tech stuff, but I originally formatted a WD5000AAKS (Western Digital 500 GB Internal) on Windows as an additional storage drive. It worked fine. I switched to Ubuntu - it still worked fine. I then switched to OS X (the Kalway install) - the drive still worked perfectly. I decided that Windows felt better on my setup (an HP Pavillion a832n), and ever since reinstalling it does not show up as a logical drive. It shows up in my Device Manager, and it says that it is working fine. I have attempted to populate the disk, but it will not assign a letter. Please, any information will help. If I have to reformat I will lose about 350 gb of my media files Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 if you formatted the 500gb drive with kalyways install, you have now a hfs+ formatted disk, which windows only can read, if you install transmac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puckslinger Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 If you dont need it anymore for OS X Disk management right click on it and formet it back to NTFS it will then have its own drive letter and look "normal" again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Formatting it would make him lose all the data. dunstonchecksin, use either MacDrive (costs money) or HFSExplorer (free) on Windows, they will be able to see your storage drive. Using those tools extract the media onto your Windows drive (or another hard drive temporarily), format the storage drive back to NTFS or FAT32, and move all your data back onto the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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