The other day the “big boss” brought his wife’s out of warranty XP Pro laptop in and laid it on my desk. The note said, “It made a funny noise and stopped working, can you take a look”, was the comment without much more detail. Don’t ya just love it.
After very little time with the machine I determined that the drive was at fault. Clicking noise and no boot. I emailed him and he said “Replace the drive and get the info off if you can.” While skeptical about the data retreival, I dutifully ordered a replacement drive and a USB/IDE/SATA adapter just to give it a try.
Got the USB adapter but the drive is backordered. I tried to take a look at the drive on my own XP Pro laptop with the adapter. Typically I have been about to make the second drive a slave and get what I need. After assigning a drive letter through Disk management I could not see any data although the drive was recognized as the correct make and model. Any thoughts on what I could try? Oh, by the way, the click is still occuring so all bets may be off. I tried chkdsk e:/r…file system is RAW. Also, clicking on the drive in My Computer asks if I want to format it. Thanks in advance.
Chip
