I have another Maxtor 160gb SATA drive that has finally decided to die, ironically, I had taken the drive out of the case, to put it in an external caddy as a spare backup drive...I was just about to drag all the stuff off it and it died.
I am guessing that this is a power issue as the pc refuses to even post it is connected (was only a storage drive), and when i first reconnected it, the psu went into protected mode, I can recreate this with this hard drive, so it isnt the psu or anything else.
The pc doesnt recognise that the drive is connected at all, not even in the bios, but i can feel it trying to work i hold on to it.
I was wondering what the best way of recovering my data from this drive is? Is it possible to buy a cheapo but working drive of the same model and just swap bits over, or what?
any ideas, or pointers would be appreciated ta![]()


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i lost 40 gb of data and another 8 gb wont even power up.


