External hard drive problem

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Hello everyone,

I have a 1 TB go flex free agent ultra portable drive and was having a loads of data on it...

but now when I connect it to my win 7 pc it asks for formatting and on my laptop which is operating on ubuntu 10.10 does not shows it in the computer folder (I am not an advanced linux user).

I do not want to format the drive as it has loads of my data. Please guide me to get my data back.

My PC configuration is as follow:
AMD Sempron processor 3200+ 1.81 GHz
2.0 Gb RAM
32-bit windows 7 ultimate
160 Gb + 250 Gb internal hard drive
zotac 8700 graphics card

Thanks in advance, please help me through this tough situation...

HLW ITS ME MAK AS PER MY OPINION THERE IS SOME PROBLEM ABOUT THE MBR(MASTER BOOT RECORD) IN THE USB HDD I SUGGEST U TO DOWNLOAD A PARTITION MANAGER AND SCAN FOR ISSUES AND ERRORS IN IT FOR THIS GO TO ANY SEARCH ENGINE(GOOGLE,ALTAVISTA ETC) AND SEARCH FOR EASEUS PARTITION MASTER (ANY VERSION BUT I PREFER 8 0R HIGHER VERSION) ONCE ITS INSTALLED PLUG IN UR USB HDD AND IT WILL DETECT AND THEN SCAN FOR ISSUES IT WILL OPTIMISE ALL UR ERRORS AND U WILL BE WORKING SMOOTHLY .....................HAVE A NICE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :wave: