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Old Jul 26, 2009 | 10:46 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by deubster
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I've seen this twice on friends' external drives. The drive was unrecognized, but once removed from the external housing, the internal drive was fine, as was the data. Certainly worth a try, and you're no worse off as to future options. Either internally mount the drive or buy a IDE/SATA to USB cable (about $12-$20) and connect the raw drive to a USB port.
It's happened to me personally more than once.
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