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Failed HDD: Can this drive be reclaimed??
I need some direction on this one. In the past, if I had cases of failed HDD, if I could get it to spin up at all I typically could use some tools to get the valuable data off before deciding whether to trash the drive or not. In this case I have a failed WD IDE/ATA hard drive that spins up but so far cannot be recognize by anything, almost. BIOS simply reports it as "Unknown", Win7 disk management crashes/hangs [I'd like to know more about that one], Winxp disk management runs but does not id the device. The only flicker of recognition I have at all is a Win7 system event Error: "Drive E: file system corrupt. Run chkdsk". Chkdsk can't deal with it.
I downloaded and ran WD's diags utility. Simply does not see a device there. I've tried mounting the drive via USB adapter and sitting on the IDE bus. No difference in results.
Can someone suggest a utility, a boot disc or some other way to try to access?
many thanks
z