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I have a PNY SSD that I'm connecting to my XP via usb. On first connect, a driver automatically gets installed by XP and the device gets recognized as a new hard drive. Unfortunately, when I try opening it, it asks me to reformat the whole thing.

The ssd works fine on my other computer(windows 7), but I don't have it handy right now. So is there some way to reformat the ssd and then recover the data safely?

Can someone direct me to some good free software for this?

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