[Gllug] OT: Hard drive failure

[ChrisJS at aol.com]

Hi,
Sorry to go slightly off topic, but there's more technical know-how on here 
than most other places...
My 20gig Maxtor hard drive died today with 3,500 Mp3s on it. I know MP3s 
aren't the most important things ever, but that's a collection I've been 
working on with a 33.6 modem for three years or so. I'm quite keen to save 
the data if at all possible.
I've contacted Maxtor support, but they said it would be a couple of days for 
a reply... I was just wondering how likely it is that I could save the 
contents of the drive; On bootup, it makes choking noises and slight beeping 
and isn't recognised as being there by BIOS. When this kind of thing happens, 
is there any chance of the contents being intact and recoverable ?
Cheers,

c

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