Just a follow-up in case anyone is interested...
The WD hard drive is definitely bad and I have not been able to recover any information from it yet.
My computer is running happily with the new/used Seagate in there and this AM I'd hooked the WD up as a slave and wahah! it showed up and I was even able to access it via explorer. Unfortunately when I tried to grab files off of it it stopped responding and I've never been able to get it to show up in windows again.
It does show up during the boot sequence although the computer pauses a long time when it's assessing that drive. but is shows up as ok and then I get an bad drive message.
I'd backed this drive up a couple of weeks ago but I can't get the backup software (Paragon) to do what's it's supposed to do with the files. Darn, darn and double darn.
I've tried freezing the drive but that hasn't helped yet....
Thanks for all help with this,
John
