hello i am trying to recover photos from a hdd that i think has been part or all through the recovery mode (not too sure user says they clicked it by mistake) i have took the hdd out of the computer (reason for this is person used recovery or part recovery and when i switch on comp it keeps asking to do a recovery) and have it hooked up to my computer through ide/sata reading device through usb anyway i cant see the drive (have done with other drives in the past but not this one) but in disc management i can see drive 6 and it says it needs to "initialize disc" but when i click to do this it says the device is not ready any ideas or anything on best how to try and get photos back btw i have the recovery software as i have used it before no problem

I'd put the drive back in the old computer. Boot to a live linux or barts cd and see if you can access the data. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, Make an autorun.inf folder on all usb drives.

put it in another computer and this time i can see it (slave) and i am running data recovery as we speak thanks for taking the time to reply