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Made partition on external hd with windows 7 now can't use w

Sep 24, 2010 2:40AM PDT

Hello,
I have a Seagate external HD that was connected to a iMac (running Mac OS X) at my office. I plugged it into my windows 7 laptop, which didn't assign a drive to it, and I ended up using computer management to make a partition on the drive and assign it an "E:\" drive (windows did this instantly). Windows 7 still wanted me to format the HD before I could access it, so I canceled that, plugged it back into the Mac and it was no longer accessible. The mac won't mount it and I can't acess the files.

Anyone have any idea how I can access the files on the drive/restore everything back to normal without losing any data? There's some really important stuff on there :\

Thanks for the help in advance.

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