I recently formatted my 80 gig western digital hard drive, and reinstalled windows on it. The problem im having is that my 250 gig maxter, which is my storage drive somehow got its file system either corrupted or DELETED when i formatted my hard drive. its a IDE hard drive and i would like to know if anyone of you guys could guide me through repairing it i would be forever grateful.Which O.S., which file system, are the file systems on both drives the same :-?My 80 gig maxter is my hard drive that contains windows XP pro, and my 250 gig maxter is my slave drive which is jest a storage drive, my 80 gig western is USING a NTFS and i don't know what file system my 250 gig maxter was using it was jest  storage, but what im thinking is that it keeps showing up in mange as unallocated because the file system got corrupted or damaged that or the partition table but i need sum expert help to make shear what ells would you need to know to help me with this?Have you tried, at a command promptchkdsk x: /f where x is the letter of the dodgy drive?i have file on that hard drive that i don't want to lose what dose this command do before i go off and try it ?
It checks the DISK and attempts to FIX errors.i ran maxters power max boot cd and it didint find any errors what i think is WRONG with my hard drive is that its file system was cruted when i foramtted my 80 gig western so i need to find a way to change it from unallocated back to NTFS or sumthing like correct me if im wrong!Was the affected drive formatted as NTFS by chance?yes it was so how can i change it from Unallocated back to NTFSWe are seeing more and more of this problem, and similar, on the forum. I am keeping track, but every one I have seen NTFS was involved.

Try Rob's suggestion. It appears you have nothing to lose.i all redy Tried Rob's suggestion with the maxters power max tools i didn't get any errors.

i can see all my data when i use recover tools sum of them tell me its my file systems messing. I jest need help from summon who know how to fix file systems, or if theres any tools that do sumthing like that.