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underpriviledged, unlucky?
Hi, I've got a feeling my drive is toast but before I junk it I'd like to hear some opinions...
it's a WD800AAJS from 2007 used since then as a root drive in a Dell Dimension 4700 running XPSP3.
The drive failed a couple of days ago and I've been trying to recover data after placing it into a USB enclosure. Occasionally my W7/64 can see it in disk management, but it says it needs formatting and its file system is reported as RAW I've tried 3 different computers, same result. Also tried to load as an internal drive - system hanging). Often it does not see it at all.
I've been trying to format it in DOS but I'm told I have insufficient privileges even when I run cdm as an administrator (and get the C:\Windows\system32> prompt).
I don't know how to go any higher - is there a higher level?
Thanks for your comments
claudio