Hi I piggy backed a failing maxtor drive (slave)onto my new hard drive (master)in an attempt to recover the valuable files on it. I have run maxtor (powermax diagnosic) on drive. It tells me that the drive has passed all the connectivity tests, but fails on a disk scan etc. I can see the drive as drive 'D' and everything on it too which is frustrating because... when I try to copy i get "cannot read from the specified device" and my mouse locks up. This is intermittent. I can get files of 1k off but nothing much bigger before I get this message and have to re-boot. I would really like to get the stuff off that drive and onto my new one but how? I have tried burning it straight to CD but failed too. Any suggestions? I would be really grateful?

Hi, I bought this program to recover data from failing hard drives. The nice part about it is, even if you don't purchase it you can still recover your data one file at a time. GetDataBack 1.0 is the name of the program. Let me know if you have any luck with it. Bob http://download.com.com/3120-20-0.html?qt=getdataback&tg=dl-2001

Hi I've tried to send you a messag+attachment but it was returned 'cause the email address isn't OK.If think you're interested in data recovery...post me a message with a valid email address. cheers Stefan