My hard drive crashed today and now when I try to boot from it it says 'hard disk failed'. I desperately need the data from this drive but I don't know what to do, if anything, to get it back now.
I tried putting the drive, as a slave, into another computer and restarting it. When it came up it was seeing the slave drive cause it listed it as a 'Maxtor40P' but a few lines below that it said 'slave failed'. I tried to continue but Windows wouldn't see this slave drive at all then.
Would software like 'Get Data Back' or some other kind of data recovery software work in a case like this??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks a lot!
I tried putting the drive, as a slave, into another computer and restarting it. When it came up it was seeing the slave drive cause it listed it as a 'Maxtor40P' but a few lines below that it said 'slave failed'. I tried to continue but Windows wouldn't see this slave drive at all then.
Would software like 'Get Data Back' or some other kind of data recovery software work in a case like this??
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks a lot!