From: nvm@nunya.biz   
      
   "J"  wrote in   
   news:4b4d3afd$0$5349$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net:   
      
   > Win XP Pro is saying that my second hard drive that I have set up as a   
   > slave is not formatted & is asking me to format it. That drive was   
   > orginally formated with the NTFS file system.  That drive was accessible   
   > a few days ago with all my data on it.  Here's what i've tried so far.   
   > I ran chkdsk on the main drive to make sure there wasn't a problem but   
   > it didn't work.  The drive still shows up in bios & device mgr with no   
   > problems.  I ran fdisk & it wasn't showing up there.  Is there a way I   
   > can get the data off that drive without paying somebody at a computer   
   > shop to do it?   
   >   
      
   My hard drive did that to me about a week before it completely crapped out.   
      
   1) Turn off your computer   
   2) Disconnect the power & data cables from your master drive   
   3) Disconnect the ribbon data cable to the slave drive but leave the power   
   connected to it   
   4) Turn on the computer (it won't boot to desktop, of course) and listen to   
   the slave drive to see that the disk is spinning, and to see if it makes any   
   funny sounds.   
      
   If the drive isn't spinning or it's making funny sounds (it's usually a   
   clicking sound), then that drive is on its last legs.   
      
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