[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ Maxtor HD Fail Help needed

[wizzard]

My Maxtor D740X-6L 40GiG hard drive desapeard from my C:\

It has no operating system on it has 2 partition and its used for storage only Downloads.

it just stopped working i tried all kind of sttup deferent connection but with no luck

Bios see's it, Hardware Manager see's it but when i come to C:\ its not there i changed cables and even tried deferent Box another comp. same thing.
And one more thing i relised as soon as i hook it on the bootup time is going up to 10min
and when i take it off the box the bootup is back to normal.

Please if anyone can help me with this

thank you

[mcelb1200]

I found a collection of data recovery techniques for dead HDD's at: http://www.hddrecovery.com.au/downloads/200ways.pdf

It's a collection of 200 posts to www.techrepublic.com and seems to be quite useful.

In particular, check out posts at: pg5 - Clifford Lyles / pg6 - Daniel Philpott / pg17 - Gordon G / pg17 - Traci N Thrash / pg32 - Ronald Reitz

Good luck! ;)