You can pop the cover off and see if there is any physical damage to the platters. DO NOT SPIN UP THE DRIVE WITH THE COVER OFF. You can drop a head due to air pressure loss inside the drive. If...

what model dell?

You need this if you do not have an IDE connector...

First off it's IDE not EDI, Does the mother board have an IDE slot some have both if it does then you can boot the IDE drive but you will have to re-load windows to update all the drivers to that...

Do you know if it's an sata drive? What model computer? you may have to get the sata driver for the drive for windows setup to see it.

Did you create a dynamic disk? you need to create a basic disk. If you are not worried about losing info at this point in xp setup delete the partition and recreate it. YOU WILL LOOSE ALL DATA DOING...

Awesome

I was wondering if there was a hack for the u3 cause they come with what you are talking about. Let us know how you make out

Did you run chkdsk again?

I'm going to say that's not possible what you may try is creating a folder with read only rights and hope they aren't smart enought to go into security permissions take ownership of the folder and...

Yes and if it does remount you need to delete info you drive is full and out of space

how are you connecting them to your pc? If you are connecting right to the motherboard one needs to be set as a master and one as a slave

What operating system are you using, what is the extension of the pics .gif .jpg .epd?