Hey guys,
I was about to go at this myself, but i decided that before i accidentally wipe my data and ask you guys. My hard drive went bad in my windows vista PC in a strange way. At first, my computer would hang for about 20 seconds when i tried to access the hard drive, but i could still see the data. Then my computer blue screened whenever i tried writing data to the hard drive. After i realized it was the hard drive that was causing the problem, I took it out. Now, when i try to put it back in, or hook it up through a USB docking station, the hard drive doesn't get recognized at all, not even in disk management.
Anyone know how I can get the data back? I was thinking maybe using a linux live distro and copying the data to another drive. But if there is an easier way, please let me know.
Thanks!