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How to add a filesystem to a drive without formatting it? [duplicate]

My hard drive suddenly appeared entirely unallocated in partition manager. I tried asigning a drive letter to it and seeing if it would recognise the old file system, but it did not. Instead it asked to format it. I believe it originally was NTFS, is there any way I can get Windows to recognise the files on my drive again?