[pchelpers] Re: Invisible drive headache

John

Try to boot to a live Linux CD-it will mount all drives in the computer
regardless of the file system or what they did to hide the drive.
Then to a second CD-RW or USB KEY copy the data from the drive.

Gregory D. Watts
Tasana Computer Repair
http://www.tasana.biz /931-823-2221 
"Computer's don't have all the answers!"


> >Replying To>>-----Original Message-----
> >Replying To>>From: pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> >Replying To>>[mailto:pchelpers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> >Replying To>>Behalf Of John Durham
> >Replying To>>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 11:13 PM
> >Replying To>>To: PC-Helpers
> >Replying To>>Subject: [pchelpers] Invisible drive headache
> >Replying To>>
> >Replying To>>
> >Replying To>>Here's a new one to think on. I brought a 
> >Replying To>>customer's hard drive to the 
> >Replying To>>workshop to backup the files, since his 
> >Replying To>>computers could not see the 
> >Replying To>>contents. Unfortunately, neither can mine.
> >Replying To>>
> >Replying To>>The drive is formatted by windows 2000 server 
> >Replying To>>(probably NTFS) and is 
> >Replying To>>near the end of its service life. The irony is, 
> >Replying To>>my BIOS can see it, but 
> >Replying To>>windows won't show it in 'my computer'. It's 
> >Replying To>>important to backup the 



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