Was it support team of ur new HDD that had responsed to format HDD?
but the answer on ur question would be: NO, u won't need to reformat it in near future. Even if it is needed to format, there are thousands of utilities (even free) that would bring ur data back (unformat).
But i'm not sure formation will solve ur problem
anyway, good luck
Hello,
I recently purchased a Hard Drive Enclosure for my laptop's Hard Drive hoping to do a data back up before I do a system restore to it. I connected the HD to the enclosure to the instructions and then I plugged it in. XP Home installed the driver and recognized that it was a mass storage device, but it didn't recognize the drive at all. I searched these boards and someone else mentioned a similar situation and the response that was given is that you need to format the HD before the enclosure recognizes the drive. My question is would I have to reformat this HD as well even though I already have data on it? I'm weary about a reformat because I'm afraid of the data being deleted.
In general, if you put a HD in a Enclosure, new or otherwise, it has to be reformatted?

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