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Having one of those frustrating pulling-my-hair-out-day. :mad:

I lived in Canada for 28 years and recently returned to England (well 2 years ago) and brought the slave drive with me that was in my desktop and had all my backups of graphics and templates that I used in my crafting/website business.

After two years I decided it was time to fork out the little bit of money to get a docking station. It came today but I ordered the wrong one. :/

Rang my brother who said I should be able to go to a local computer store/shop that sold cables to adapt my hard drive to the docking station. Nope, they didn't have the cables but did have an external hard drive case on sale so I bought it.

Got home, all excited, got the hard drive installed into the case, plugged it into the power, got the USB cable plugged in and voila, nothing!!! Nada, zip, nil...didn't recognize the drive. So off I went to my Dad who got the same result. We made a few changes but nothing seemed to work.

Looks like my Seagate 300GB Barracuda 7200 RPM 8MB ATA drive has given up the ghost and took all my business stuff with it. I could cry... :(

I wonder if I took it back to Canada with me (when we go over this year) and put it back in the desktop I originally took it from (which my daughter still has) would it work? Worth a try I guess.

If anyone has any suggestions, ideas or anything I would welcome them, thanks.
Take care,

Jayne
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There is a possibility that on the original desktop there was software that "compressed" the data when i baked up or formatted the drive in some kind of funky format that the OS doesn't know about.

It is worth a try, but if you do get you data to read with the old computer try to transfer it to another drive that is readable without special software.
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That's what I would do or if I can get it to read on the desktop it was originally in then I could back it all up to CD/DVD and just bring them back with me.

I was planning on backing everything up to DVD before I left but had so much to do it completely went out of mind. :)

Take care,

Jayne
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Jadire...wonder if the file scavenger might be of use to you somehow?
http://www.quetek.com/prod02.htm
But you will have to find some kind of life form in the dead mass for it to work of course!
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Hey thanks Janys. I'll look into that.

BTW love your sites.
Take care,

Jayne
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:)
Many thanks Jayne...good luck with the recovery.
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I once lost a drive that had critical accounting. I took it out, turned it over, reinstalled and viola it worked for another couple of years. Who knows what lurks in the heart of disk drives -----
good luck
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