To pull the drive out of the case and apply directly to the forehead. Ahh no I mean the desktop's internal spare IDE connection.
If you're lucky, the PC will boot and see the drive and you can copy data off. If not then software like Zero Assumption Recovery (there's a demo) is tried.
-> About cavalier. Where is your backup copy? Hard disks will fail. You just don't know when.
Bob
Does anyone have any great ideas about how to get data OFF of my ext hd? The hard drive (used successfully less than 1 month) is definitely bad, and WD Support says "Well if possible, move all data off the drive. At this point, you will need to have the drive replace."
Running WinXP, ext HD is Western Digital Passport 160gb. Have tried connecting ext HD to a desktop, just in case problem was with my laptop - no good. When I connect ext HD, all is good. then once I start to actually use the thing, it eventually stops responding so i disconnect ext hd, reconnect, and resume. generally, can copy a few files over to laptop before it stops, but with over 40gb already on there, i could be at this all year.
anyone have any ideas? I am furious about the cavalier attitude that WD is taking about my data!

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