D and E drives not opening...showing that "disk is not formatted"........

[erashoksharma]

I have a problem with opening my D and E drive of laptop........... when I double click on any of both drives it show disk is not formatted.....also this task of formatting  is not performed..........I have a lot of data in the drives..........

kindly help me to solve this problem........................

[SuperDave]

Are these external hard drives or are they partitions on the main HD?

[erashoksharma]

Are these external hard drives or are they partitions on the main HD?

these are partitions in main hard drive

[SuperDave]

Can you gain access to these partitions to save your data? If you can, save your data to DVD's or to your C drive and format these partitions.