Take the failing drive out. On the back will be a jumper setting called slave. Set it as slave. Place the drive into a working machine and boot the working machine. Not as the only drive, but add it to the ribbon cable. The failing drive will show up as a new drive and can be accessed. Maybe. If so you can copy all your ''stuff'' to the working drive or CD or DVD.

Wayne

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