Drive detected as RAW

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Date: 05/25/05 

Date: 25 May 2005 06:57:23 -0700

I have instaled a new 160Gb hard drive. Converted my original C: drive
from FAT32 to NTFS. Now my system identifies the new disk as a RAW
disk. How to I get this back to NTFS without formatting the disk. I
will loose all the data if I format. Urgent help required.
I thought maybe I can format the disk to NTFS and do a Data recovery
on this disk??? Afraid to do this....

I know a new Bill Gates was just waiting to solve my problem.
Please assist.

Thanks
Franky Coetzee +27828885754

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