TSGL: Slave drive not seen

[Michael Sweeden]

The drive could've gone belly up when the system died. Most drive
manufacturers, including Western Digital, offer diagnostics software for
their drives which is very accurate. You can download Ultimate Boot CD which
does include WD diagnostics or download it from www.westerndigital.com. If
the drive's fine, then what may be the "premier" data recovery software in
the world is from www.ontrack.com, and there is a trial version that'll let
you see what can be recovered.


-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of Don Penlington
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 7:04 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: Slave drive not seen

Michael wrote:
>Does is still work in the machine from which it came?>>


That's a bit difficult to say--the old computer is now landfill at the 
local tip!

The HD is an old 13.5 Gb WD, probably the original HD.

The old computer just suddenly refused to boot--no lights, nothing. A 
7-year-old Compaq, it wasn't worth fixing.

I suspect it was the power supply, or the switch. Since it's not being 
recognised in XP, I can't drag any data off it with any of my data-rescue 
software.

Strange that Device Manager can see it and reports it as functional, but 
it's not visible at all in Disk Management.

Don Penlington
 From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
Computer tutorials, local scenery,  and other things at my website:
http://users.tpg.com.au/deepend/index1.html


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