Ben, I feel your pain.

[ChuckD]

Having just about given up any hope of recovering 120 GB of music from a failed hard drive, I know somewhat how you feel.

If it's any consolation, I'm considered one of those computer guys people go to to fix their stuff. Can't wait to drag that filter and pump out and pull the cover off!

Glad to see you're back.

C.

[bparks]

Having just about given up any hope of recovering 120 GB of music from a failed hard drive, I know somewhat how you feel.

If it's any consolation, I'm considered one of those computer guys people go to to fix their stuff. Can't wait to drag that filter and pump out and pull the cover off!

Glad to see you're back.

C.

Chuck, you have probably already tried this, but just in case it help, I recently recovered a ton of pictures and music off a 100gig drive my wife had. XP had given up on it and insisted it needed formatting. Mounted it in my linux box with little trouble, and have been using it ever since. A linux live CD might work if you don't have a linux pc. Good luck, hope you get it all back.

[ChuckD]

Didn't try the Linux trick. Oh well.
My conclusion is I was not fully aware of the situation concerning "48 bit LBA" and these larger drives (this one's a WD1600JB, 160 GB cap.).
My understanding was that as long as Windows 2000 was patched to SP4 it wasn't an issue. Not!

Thanks to some fellow Dutchmen who produce some fine data recovery tools (http://www.diydatarecovery.nl), I was enlightened to this website, http://www.48bitlba.com wherein they (as well as a MS KB article) make clear that in addition to patching, a registry setting ALSO needs to be applied.

So the good news is the drive is perfectly healthy, the bad news is the data's gone for good.

C.