Backup file/drive failure. accessing backup files. ?

Question

i recently went under system tools --> backup and saved important files and etc i needed onto a second internal (slave) harddrive so that when i reformatted i would be able to restore my stuff. after i reformatted however, i was unable to access my backup files and my windows was unable to find anything. i do know something that ntfs files can only be read by the os system it was created by so it makes sense that i cant access them. but my question is is there a way to overlook that detail and get to them anyways?

Answer 1

How  does appears the backup hard disk in the OS?  Not at all/ the hard is completely missing? Empty space/ unformatted? Formatted but empty ?

ntfs files can only be read by the os system it was created - this is false, it should be readable by anybody or anything NTFS compatible.

Download, burn to a disk and boot from http://www.mandriva.com/en/product/mandr... ; double click on Storage Media, the 2 hard drives will be shown with a small green arrow at the right lower corner - if the arrow isn't there right click on it and click on Mount; double click on the second to open it. If the disk shows as empty, all your files have been deleted when you have reinstalled (or a bad backup - next time just drag and drop the files you want saved, manually). If the files are there copy them to DVD+R using K3b, use Run to launch it.