Ya .. So i tried with ERD in my laptop with XP . didnt see the drive. no go .. had it in the freezer didnt really make a difference . not sure what my other options are .. any other nice software you guys recommend . recovermyfiles found alot but then when i went to get it all . asked me for a seria...

UPDATE .. So i bought the enclosure .. hooked everything up . Booted in ERD . it didnt see the drive .. So i just booted into windows xp and ran a program called recoverymyfiles. Its at home right now reading like 146 millions files or something like that . So i guess its doing something . I have al...

They said they ran a test on it . it failed so the drive needed to be replaced. It was free so i didnt ask questions. I guess im just confused on what the problem is . They didnt specify on what the problem was or what was corrupted. Im going to go back to best buy and buy the external enclosure and...

ok but im trying to understand what the freezer trick does . i thought that the freezer trick was for hard ware issues ??ill try it again but does anyone have any other ideas ? maybe like ERD type programs . Im runnig vista but my laptop is running xp so i can use alot of programs.

I posted this question in another thread but I figured no one would see it .. I was just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem im having with my hard drive . It kind of relates to the problem for this thread .. Basically I was using my pc one night when i was getting these error windows. ...

I was just wondering if anyone could help me with a problem im having with my hard drive . It kind of relates to the problem for this thread .. Basically I was using my pc one night when i was getting these error windows. During this time all I was doing was dragging and dropping stuff off one exter...