I'm not sure weather the drive I initialized:
http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x...initialize.jpg
was ext3 or ntfs. I thought it was ntfs and that's why I clicked "ok". But now I'm not so sure. It shows up in drive manager as you can see from the link I provided. (since I clicked the ok button to this same dialogue once already)
On rare occasions in the past I've encountered this dialogue and I'm pretty sure I've clicked ok at least once and the system just recognized the drive it didn't format it or anything.
Searching windows forums for this hasn't provided much in the way of answers.
I've read conflicting post's, some say it formats the drive and others say it just makes it so the operating system can read it.
Does anyone know (for sure) what it does and what to do in a situation like this?
I can't see the drive (at all) in linux now, I've tried both f-disk -l and testdisk. With 3 physical drives attached I only see 2, (sda1 & sdb1) should be an sdc1 but there isn't.
Only thing I know to do now is try loading it up on windows and clicking "ok" to the initialize disk dialogue in drive manager.
drive obviously isn't dead, windows see's it, it's attached to the motherboard via sada port.
Robert Christ