Re: A little off topic help[attn Chris]

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> Ok, there's several ways of playing this. Probably your first port of call is
> the
> manufacturers website, and look up the drive model - windows may report it (R
> click My computer /
> properties / hardware / look up the hard drive (or something like that) ),
> or you may have to open the case and get the drive manufacturer / serial
> number from the drive case.

Also try Belarc Advisor - it should give you HD model info.

www.belarc.com
 
> Finally, there are 3rd party disk accessing programs - eg ontrack, which
> will place a little program in the boot sector of the drive to enable
> access to the whole drive - you may have to pay some pennies for this.
> I've never had to yet, but I suppose there's always a first time.

Western Digital has a nice bit of software that comes with their
drives that does this. I'm not too sure if it works with other drives,
but its free and worth a shot.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

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