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Originally posted by Timon@Jun 21 2005, 02:11 AM
Can you hear the drive spinning and reading when you boot up your PC? Put your hand on it or press it against your ear while you boot up the PC.
If not then there may be a mechanical or electrical failure in which case data recovery software won't help you, you'll just need to get whatever is broken repaired.
I'd contact the manufacturer and see if there is any service center in your area.
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That was the very first thing I did when I initially started having problems with this drive. It is not a mechanical problem.
What I finally ended up doing last night was sticking the drive into one of my spare machines and running Spinrite. That didn't work. So I ended up deleting the partition, creating a new partition, putting the drive back inside of my primary machine, then tried running Forensic Disk Utility and GetDataBack. No luck there, either. Just for the hell of it, I ran Stellar Phoenix again. It found the drive and started listing the data I figured was gone for good. I went to bed as my data was being recovered. Of course we had a power fart over night and our machines reset, so I had to start it over again this morning when I got up, but at least it is working. Thank you to everyone for their assistance!