Recovering notes on minor drive?

I have two rock-hard drives in my computer.

Primary = XP
Slave = Basic storage for design files.

My 'Slave' drive crashed and isn't acknowledged when I boot into XP. What do I do to recover this information besides hiring someone for a lot of money?

The 'slave' drive is notorious in the BIOS. And when I run Data Lifegauard (from Wester Digital) it also recognize the drive. But if I use data lifeguard, it seem it will format the drive, and thus I would lose my data.

Any thinking? I've tried some data recovery programs that work from Windows but they don't see the drive at adjectives. Seems that once I am in XP, zilch can see the drive.

Any way to recover using a DOS prompt, and if so...how? Feel free to PM me if you a actual expert in this. I enjoy got to own some of those files recovered and I can't afford recovery costs of pro's.

Thanks.

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"> You will most likely not be capable of recover this without professional services. If something have broke inside the drive (do you hear sounds? clicking?) you need to stop trying, as you are individual damaging your platter.
BUT...brand name sure this not a bad HDD cable...if your slave is on a different IDE / SATA trough, there is a indiscriminate you only hold a bad / dammaged cable or connector. Man, I sure hope that's it for you. Good Luck!

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try a recovery software such as RevoverMyFiles Source(s): http://windowstips.blogmas.com/2007/11/2…