Neal. You don't mention the type of Hard Drive. If you check out the
manufacturers website you may find a tool you could use to test the drive.
I'm not sure that you could recover the data, but there may be a tool you
could use to recover the drive. Then again maybe not. There's another thread
on the list currently for recommendations of drives. I have stuck to WD in
the past because of the tools on their website. It doesn't matter anymore as
most manufacturers have similar tools nowadays.

Good Luck
Brendon

<snip>
> I was just curious for learing purposes if there might be any steps I can
> take to try and recover data on the malfunctioning drive. I'm pretty sure
its
> a lost cause on this one, just a good thing there wasn't anything
important
> on it.
> Thanks,
>
> Neal Collins

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