On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Peter Barick wrote:

> My Problem: My pc was unable to boot from an older Western Digital hard
> drive. I have replaced it and reloaded the OS, but I need some of the
> data on the old. <grin>

Been there...  recently, in fact, but with SCSI disks (which I am now
convinced are the work of the Devil, by the way).

> I've tried to switch it as a slave to the now current boot disk, but
> the system doesn't "see" it as a drive. Even tried a WD utility and it
> doesn't see it.

That sounds bad, like a servo or board failure.  Do you have access to an
identical drive from which you can swap the logic board?  I've done that
on older drives.  It seems the newer the drive the slimmer your chances
for success, though.

Dale
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