I have an OEM hard drive originally made by Western Digital, but signed by a company called MDT. Now ever since i bought the hard drive, it would be detected as an MDT(model number after that) in the black boot screen. Then recently, my hd went bad and started making these clicking noises and would NOT be detected (BTW, this is a primary slave drive, 100gb). Ever since i've had this problem neither the master nor slave drives would be detected, but if i don't have the slave drive connected, the master reads just fine. Now recently after doing the freeze trick, I was sort of able to get the hard drvie read again but get this, IT DID NOT SHOW AS AN MDT HARD DRIVE, it showed up as a WDC(model #). Also, in the device manager, the hd is shown, but NOT in "MY COMPUTER". Now i have no idea how this happened and I want to know how i would recover the data that's in it. I used this program from file-recovery.net and it showed the 2nd drive as 0.00GB???!!! Also, I tried this other program called GetDataBack by which i was also unsuccessful as it would give me these bad sector errors or whatever. If anyone out there can help me out, I would appreciate GREATLY 100%. Thanx, Son Goten

i've sent drives off to data restoration companies before.. quite pricey tho. however, it wasn't my dime.. because it was where i worked. (: i've also repaired a harddrive once. would you have access to a duplicate harddrive? in my case, the card on the harddrive was faulty. i carefully removed the card and swapped the same card from the same type of harddrive on in it's place. booted as if it never had a problem! however.... since you do say it's making a noise.. i doubt your problem is this second item that i speak of. the more you have it plugged in, the more damage will be made on the drive. only have it powered up when you are testing out another program or procedure. if the data is really important, don't play around with the drive anymore and get it into the professionals that deal with data recovery. good luck!

sounds to me like your fat table got corrupted or wiped out thats why its not shown on my computer.. soo if u want u can try re partitioning the drive, format and use that recovery program to see if data recovery can be done. I use easy recovery software.. good luck to u.

If you can slave the drive to a working PC and try..... PC Inspector or Disk Investigator. You will have to search for the addresses 'cos I have then lost somewhere.