hard drive went down...any way to retrieve data on it?

[Buzz]

Since the drive can sorta be seen, Data Rescue, or other similar utilities ought to be able to harvest data. You don't want to be messing w/ other stuff like DW at this point... sounds like the platter(s) may be blowing chunks, so you want to keep the heads away from the bad areas until you have harvested as much data as possible from the drive. Once the data is safely harvested, then you can mess w/ trying to resurrect the hardware, and then hope that it's not a hardware issue.

BTW, internal or external? 2.5" or 3.5"? PATA or SATA?

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