i have a 40 gig western digital hard drive that does what i like to call "sometimin'" as in some times it works and sometimes it dont. i read somewhere that i could freeze the disk and this might fix the issue but i am unsure how to proceed. i have replaced the hard drive but i want to try to salvage this one and get the data off. i have a lot of music and games i purchased. BIOS is able to see the drive but windows is unable to read it even though it sometimes sees it. any suggestions would be great

Please take a look at the following link you will need Adobe Accrobat.

http://smicnsw.org.au/200 Ways To Revive A Hard Drive.pdf

Regards Howard

frat info butt...

if when i try to boot from that drive, i get the windows splash screen. it just hangs there. it does make an awful noise. do you think this could be symptomatic of the problem discussed in the link you sent?

Can you boot into safe mode?

Regards Howard :grinthumb

nope

no i cannot

In that case take a look at the following thread it may be something wrong with your OS.

www.techspot.com/vb/topic8356.html

Regards Howard :grinthumb

already tried that

that is a great thing to try because it has save my butt a few times on other systems but this is definately a hardware issue. i tried that figuring that because the drive was running winME but i got bupkas. it said i did not have a drive to be able to complee the installation. i was upgrading to XPpro .i am just trying to confirm my suspisions before i freeze the drive :grinthumb

Is there any way you could try your hdd in another system just to make sure?

I must admit that it is sounding ominous for your hdd.

Hope you find a solution soon when you do please post back as I would be very interested.

Regards and good luck Howard :grinthumb