Hard drive crash but can see folders

[thewolfe]

Hard drive crash but can see folders

I have a friends HD which won't start but I can see the folders and files as a "slave" drive but "Properties says there is "0" under size and I can't get into the folders.

Is it "toast"? Any ideas to get some data off the drive?

 

[Goalie]

1. What filesystem? EXT, Fat, Fat32, NTFS, ResierFS, MacFS....
2. Have you run a disk doctor/scan disk utility on it?
3. How about a partition repair utility (In fact, I might suggest this before #2).

What were the symptoms of death?

All of this info, what size the drive is, make/model/etc would be helpful in figuring out what the best approach to helping you is...

 

[thewolfe]

Win98, FAT32
Quantum CX
Size ?
He ran Scandisk, don't know if he ran anything else.
Don't know about a "partition" utility

I get "boot failure" and it was "clicking" which it's not doing now. Actually, it sounds pretty normal.