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I have a Maxtor IDE 160gb dirve I had used for 3 years in my main rig as the main drive. It crapped on me. BSOD. I installed new drive, new OS, etc. Tried to slave this drive to retrieve my guitar backing tracks and miscellaneous files from. It shows a drive there but will not allow access to the drive in any way. I got an external shell and ried to USB it in too but again it shows a drive but will not allow access to the drives contents.

Any suggestions? The files are not precious just time consuming to get again via download from many, many sites so getting them off this dead drive would be great.

do you mean not allowing you to access as in access rights? you need to take ownership of the contents. right click on the drive>properties>security>advance>"owner" tab and change the owner to your current sign on.

tnynyn wrote:do you mean not allowing you to access as in access rights? you need to take ownership of the contents. right click on the drive>properties>security>advance>"owner" tab and change the owner to your current sign on.

I will try this when I get home.

If the drive isn't working due to a physical problem, you can try putting it in several freezer bags. (So it won't get any condensation) and freeze it.

The cold will sometimes make a defective drive spin again. Of course, this is a do at your own risk situation.

Try GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/gdb.htm) or EasyRecovery (http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/) to recover your data.

moon111 wrote:If the drive isn't working due to a physical problem, you can try putting it in several freezer bags. (So it won't get any condensation) and freeze it.

The cold will sometimes make a defective drive spin again. Of course, this is a do at your own risk situation.

As far as I can tell it is a physical issue so I will try this solution.

I would make sure that it is a physical issue, and try googling other solutions first. And, I don't mean to sound stupid, but is the drive assigned a letter, cuz my friend couldn't get his HD working one day as a slave, and it just needed to be assigned a proper drive letter lol.

Bit_Cloud wrote:I would make sure that it is a physical issue, and try googling other solutions first. And, I don't mean to sound stupid, but is the drive assigned a letter, cuz my friend couldn't get his HD working one day as a slave, and it just needed to be assigned a proper drive letter lol.

Yes it has a letter and shows up in My Computer but when you left or right click on it it will say the content is unavailable after a 5 minute hangtime. Whether installed internally or externally.

I haven't done anything to it yet. Trying to find time.

You could try HDD regenerator, I have a friend who repaired 2 of his HD with it