sorry for the late reply - been on holiday. thanks for the advice.. ive never taken the cover off of a drive before is it easy to do? it does sound like there may be something mechanically wrong with...

Hi ive been given a friends hard drive to recover some data from as his machine recently died! i said id have a look but it seems as though the drive is completely dead. Ive plugged it in as a slave...

I have a 250gb Mybook which ive had for ages and havent had any problems.. you may have just been unlucky with it? Not really too sure what to suggest as a replacement.. it really depends on whether...

im in work right now so i cant remember what bios is i think it may be pheonix... but i dont think im looking in the wrong area... i look at list of ide devies and they are all shown as none, when i...

well i was fine using them up until now... the problem i have is that i want to downgrade to windows XP... but i cant boot from the XP CD as i cant change the boot device priority in BIOS because the...

thanks for the advice... not sure this will really solve my problem though as I can actually see and use the drives like normal in Windows.

The problem I have is that they are not shown in the...

any one have any ideas what this could be as its driving me crazy!

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I recently upgraded to windows vista and decided that its not for me so i want to downgrade... When i tried to set the system to boot from the XP CD i noticed that the IDE optical drives arent...