Re: A little off topic help[attn Chris]
- Posted by Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com> Sep 30, 2004
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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