Is data recovery possible?

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DigitalMP

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This drive was in my old Desktop machine about 2 years ago. There was a bad thunderstorm the night before, and the next day, I was able to boot my machine and access my OS drive without a problem. However, this slave drive was inaccessible, though the drive letter existed.

I soon upgraded to a laptop, and bought the Adaptec USB/1394 enclosure to access my OS drive files. I popped the slave drive in it, and the drive letter appeared, though I still could not view the folder structure or any files.

The drive has been in an anti-static bag ever since. Is there any hope to accessing the files on this drive?
 
I would say so as the drive appears to be spinning and detected by the computer, try a few drive recovery programs, i think ive used "easy recovery pro" in the past and had good results, although there is probably better/cheaper than that available. Some will even have trial versions so you can see what they will recover before you pay any money.

In all cases make sure that you do not write any data to the bad HD at all, everytime you do, you ruin your chances of making a successfull recovery. If you have enough free HD space on one of your working harddrives, then you should try and mirror the bad HD to a image file. This will also give you a second chance should something go wrong with the drive during recovery.
 
Hm...thanks guys. I have hope!

I'm gonna grab a 750GB since my 400 only has 40GB free, so I can try and image it if that's possible. I'll report back in a few weeks!
 
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