[Resolved]  Western Digital — Need to undo a New Simple Volume on Windows 7 on a Western Digital 500GB

Address:Hoshiarpur, Punjab

Hi. I have a Western Digital external hard drive with files in two of the three partitions. I formatted it for OS X a few years ago before adding these files. Now I am trying to read these files on a Windows 7 laptop. Many of the threads I read said to "assign it a letter to see your files." The only way I could do that is to create a New Simple Volume. Did I make a big mistake here? Now that I did that, my Apple won't read the drive, and my Windows 7 laptop won't read it unless I format it, which I don't want to do for fear of losing all the files. Can someone please help me? Can I undo this New Simple Volume thing, or do I need to?
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Aug 14, 2020
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Hi Chirag,
I am sorry to hear that, based on your post I'd like to suggest you that New Simple Volume means that you have reformatted your hard drive. OSX uses a different file format which will not support up to Windows 7 and even if you will create Windows partition it will not change that, those partitions will still not be accessible.If you want to share a drive between Mac and Windows, format in FAT or if you have newer Mac and Windows version you could also use exFAT. I would probably do that format on the Mac. Unfortunately you might have lost your data however if you want to recover the data you may try the data recovery service which will be very costly .
http://support.wdc.com/recovery/index.asp?wdc_lang=en

Before going for data recovery service I'd recommend to try some online softwares to recover your files. I'd also suggest you for future references if you want to reformat the drive for Mac and Windows make sure you do it on FAT or exFAT
Good luck.

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