Have you tried putting it on a separate drive cable?  Some hard drives won't 
work well with others.  You can try putting the drive in an external 
enclosure and connect it via USB to the tower.  As a last resort, you can 
also put the hard drive in a airtight bag in a freezer for several hours to 
overnight to prevent the seizing of the heads, at least until it warms up 
(which happens quickly)!!  Have the temporary setup ready to go before you 
take it out of the freezer.  I have also heard that a sharp rap on a solid 
surface will free up the heads, although I haven't had any luck with that. 
I have retrieved data from several 40 Gig DeskStars with the freezer method, 
as wacky as it seems.  Good Luck!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "chipo chika" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:15 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive failure


>A hard drive on my collegue's pc has crashed. I am tring to help him
> salvage data from the hard drive. The current situation is that I have
> slaved the drive on my pc and the good news is that the drive is
> recognised during post. But on the other hand the drive is not bieng
> recognised once the OS is loaded. For some jumper combinations the drive
> is being recognised during post and just before windows loads a blue
> screen shows up briefly and the pc restarts. Is ther any way of getting
> around this problem or any free software to boot the system with and
> have a go at the drive? The drive is IBM deskstar, Win XP
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