SATA showing 'unformatted'

[dfgh11]

Hi,

I recently bought a new SATA and due to the restrictions of the board, it would mean I had to move hard drives around.So I moved all the files I wanted to keep onto my new SATA and my other SATA. Then when I had sorted it out, and installed windows on another drive, I found that the SATA drives showed up as needing formatting, to be accessible in my newly installed windows. Which has never happened to me before. I loaded up partition magic in dos and the drives showed up as 'unformatted', but I noticed the files must still be on there due to the amount used.

Can anyone help me with accessing these files withinin windows?

thanks

[Abbadon]

Hello,

Have you tried to boot your machine using the Knoppix LiveCD ?, you could download the latest image from the Knoppix website, burn it to a CD and boot your computer with it. You could give it a try and see if you can access the SATA hard disk and copy the files back to your IDE hard disk.

In case you don't know, Knoppix is a Linux distro used for things like rescue of corrupted files and to access Windows files when you can't boot your Windows installation.