Do you have ata or sata hard drives?

In the future, if you can't loose it, back it up!

In that case I expect data recovery to be very expensive. I have no idea just how expensive it will be tho as I am in the UK.

No idea about cost of data recovery as we don't know where in the world you are!

If the bios will not pick the hard drive up then no software will work on it.

There are 2 possibilities.

1 - Place the hard drive in a zip bag then put it in the freezer overnight. It's a long shot, but it could get it to work for a short time.

2 - Take it to a data...

A Delayed Write Failure usually means the drive is on it's way out.

No problem! :)

THIS (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308421) is what you need to have a read of then!

You haven't said what OS you have. We need to know in order to help!

Ata hard drive's have 2 settings. Master or slave.
The master and slave settings set them as master or slave respectively.
The CS or Cable Select setting allow the drives to be set to master or...

I would say it's had it's day.

It's a shame the freezer trick didn't work.

The firmware on your burner may be updatable, search for your burners make and model on the net.

Do you have a PC or a Laptop?

No problem! There is absolutely no guarantee that the idea will work. Even if it does, it wont work for very long.

One thing that can work for a while is to put the faulty hard drive into a resealable bag and stick it in the freezer over night.

From now on, always back up any data you don't want to loose.

There are no jumper settings on a sata hard drive. Just set the boot order correctly in your bios and you should be good.

It does indeed sound like the hard drive has had it. Replacing it may be the only option.

You could try downloading memtest via google. Run it for atleast 7 passes, any errors at all and the...

Searck the net for a bios update for your computer, that may well sort the problem as most pc's were designed long before 1tb drives existed.