by deathagent » Sat Oct 29, 2005 12:59 am
The program Partition Table Doctor, relatively cheap (and you may be able to find a free version that works) is able to repair broken partition tables and boot sectors enabling the computer to read that the disc exists. At this point data recovery is possible using a free DOS-based program called findntfs (google it). Using PArtition Table Doctor to regain detectability of the drive will also allow you to reformat the drive which, I am told, can sometimes fix bad HDs. I have not finished recovering the data on my HD yet, but when I do I will see if a reformat fixes the disk and post the results here, so if anyone else has this problem they can find out how to fix it easier than I.