boy this one is good,,,sitting by the pc working next thing you know the harddrive starts to smoke,,and then i see a little flame come from the harddrive board,,oh,oh,,shut the computer down right away,,its a maxtor 250gig drive,,turns out the borad fried,,nice,,so now what,,i have another 250gig maxtor drive just like this one so i just switched boards and it worked,,so i thought great i didnot lose anything,,well not true,,because i put the other board from the other drive,,it will not read anything from the drive,,,windows does see the drive but always asks to format it,,there is only a handful of files i need off the drive,,everything else can go,,any ideas what i can do,,cheers
OK, I got lost when you started talking about "other drive this and other drive that". Let's try again and call one drive A and the other one B. It's always possible that the heat from the board frying has damaged the platters and/or head. In that case, your data is toast.
yup,,your right,,i screwed,,ok drive A,,is the one that died,,drive B is the drive i took that board out to put into drive A,, they are both maxtors 250gig disc drives,,,but turns out that the board from drive B reads different sectors on the disk then the board of drive A,,so its not good,,but i know a guy who works at a computer store he said he wants to play with it and the software he has he thinks he can at least find the files that i need,,not all of them,,if he can do it,,hes god,,
UPDATE,,,,the guy did it,,he got all my files back,,he said the software he uses is very expensive,,he not going to tell me what he used,,understand,,but it can be done,,14 hours it took to read the drive,,and recovered everything,,oh happy days are here again,,cheers
Congradulations...now stop using Maxtor drives...they are the ultra-low-end of the Seagate line...if you want a Seagate, then get a good one. If you realy want to keep your files, get RAID.
