Window initialized my usb drive, now i can't see my drive

well, i've been using my g-drive on my mac, and thought i could just unplug and plug it into my windows machine. without realizing it, i initialized the drive on windows side. i was afraid to do anything afterwards, realizing that i just had window did something to my disk, and just unplugged it and plugged it into my mac again, now i can't see the hard disk or disk utility is not recognizing it... help, what do i need to do to the usb drive so that my data is back again .

Hi mr.wOrm;
If Windows formatted the drive for you, I think your
chance of recovering anything at all are very slim at
best. I take you don't have a backup. That is always
the safest thing to do is backup. If in doubt back it
up first and then think about what you are going to
do next.
If Windows has totally destroyed everything it is
possible that you can download some software from here that might
be able to recover some of your data. Th demo you
download will tell you what it can recover. If what
it can recover is worth your while then you must pay
for the software to actual recover it. You will also
need a blank disk to place the recover data on to.
Good luck
Allan
hi allan,
well the good news is that i actually use EnCase for forensic, but i can't believe that i would screw up like this and have to use it myself. worst case scenerio, i would have to go into work today or on monday and try to recover this forensically :(:(:(:(
i was hoping that it was some quick thing that would reinitialize my drive and viola

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