The drive? So, it's recognizable by the utilities? So I take it the BIOS also recognizes it correctly?
Is it first in boot order? Is it even a bootable drive? Have you tried going to the command line in Windows and seeing if you can get to it that way?
Is there another drive in the system that you're booting from to run these utilities?
Yeah, as reynard52 suggests, try booting from a knoppix CD and see if you can recognize the drive. If so, you should at the very least be able to copy the data you want off of it, before fdisk-ing and reformatting.
I take it this drive used to work on this system? Or did you move it from a different system? If that's the case, you probably need to adjust a jumper setting. Same if you've moved the IDE cables around (as in, if it used to be on one, but now it's on a different one, or if you've installed any other new devices.)
Any other changes to hardware or software made before it stopped working?
Let me know if any of that works, and I'll try to think of what else may be. It's strange that it's recognized, but can't be read. But not unheard of.
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The drive? So, it's recognizable by the utilities? So I take it the BIOS also recognizes it correctly?
Is it first in boot order? Is it even a bootable drive?
Have you tried going to the command line in Windows and seeing if you can get to it that way?
Is there another drive in the system that you're booting from to run these utilities?
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I take it this drive used to work on this system? Or did you move it from a different system? If that's the case, you probably need to adjust a jumper setting. Same if you've moved the IDE cables around (as in, if it used to be on one, but now it's on a different one, or if you've installed any other new devices.)
Any other changes to hardware or software made before it stopped working?
Let me know if any of that works, and I'll try to think of what else may be. It's strange that it's recognized, but can't be read. But not unheard of.