A couple of months ago, my wife got *really* upset with me (details unnecessary [grin]) and slammed the monitor lid on my Gateway laptop. When I picked it up after the “discussion” and re-opened the monitor I got the dreaded “Disc Read Error.”
ugh
Subsequent drive scans and diagnostics revealed that my 60 gig hard drive had suffered a devasting blow. The first 6.8 gigs were damaged and marked as Bad Sectors (assuming the MBR was included in these).
About a week later, the drive was not being read at all. Not even being recognised as being there at all by the BIOS or the OS (winXP Pro).
Bought a new HDD and reinstalled everything I could remember and everything is fine.
BUT….
Today I bought a USB HDD enclosure, hoping to be able to recover any data possible from the aforementioned dead drive.
But the drive isn’t being recognized at all, by BIOS or OS (winXP Pro).
Is this truely a dead drive/paperweight? Or is there something that can be done via software?
I’m on a fixed income (quite paltry, really), and would like to find some software somewhere in the “Scottish price range” (really cheap or free). (I’m of mostly Scottish decent, and use this term referring to myself. so it’s not really as offending a term as it may sound [grin])
Thanks in advance,
David
