glad581 said:
Your computer hardware is corrupted, try some other computer to access your external hard drive, it will definably work.




thats exactly what i want to do i have a xp descktop and my win7 is a desktop as well but smaller and was curious what i would need to retrieve the data off my hard drive like a SATA/PATA/IDE Drive to USB 2.0 Adapter Converter Cable or something like that just wondering thx.