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Roger that. I’ve got a spare, should put it in and put a fresh OS on to try and grab data, but will I even be able to see it given what is happening? Even if I boot to another drive?
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That’s what I would do. A fresh basic copy of XP and then once you have put all the drivers on, attach that old drive, boot to windows and see if it recognizes it. Let us know how that goes if it does not recognize it, there are other things you can do. I know there are some linux based utilities that can see drives that windows can’t, you just need to have a USB drive or flash drive or something to get the data off if the utilities can’t fix the drive.
Walter, WTF, you like play full contact sports with your computers or something, it seems like you are always having HD problems…