I tried everything I could think of to rescue the drive, including putting it back in the external case, and even installed it as a slave in a second computer. Neither computer recognnized the drive at all, so there was no hope of copying files to the primary drive. Although it showed up in BIOS as a working drive. Another PB-Build contributor provided me with a copy of a recovery program by the Partition Magic people. I'll give it a try. Thanks for your suggestions.
Robert
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