try one of the many data recovery programs (or spend the small fortune of taking it to a data recovery service). PRIOR to that though MAKE SURE yourslaving the new drive to the original (DON'T put it as MASTER on the second IDE channel...I've found computers don'tlike that unless you have NTLDR set up for a dual boot.) Email me at jasonruiz@yahoo.com OR kryptkeeper@myway.com if you'd like somehelp in trying to get it working (unless you feel like spending the LD call...youcan callme @ 915-269-8880 (ifyour on a land line, I'll call you rigfht back since it comes off my cell minutes either way and I don't get charged extra for LD calls (unless I'mn outta minutes...then that's a differant story...it'snever happened but I know LD minutes are somethinglike $.89 vs. $.37 or so for extra minutes....i used to go over my minutes so I upped my plan now I have yet to go over...was well worth the extra $10 a month. I didn't always go over but when I did it was by WAY MORE than $10...1hr extra ran something like $20.00 and I'dgo over up to 2 hours somem months. for an extra $10, I got an extra 5hrs...double what it used to be PEAK hours and something like TRIPLE the 500MIN OFF PEAK/Weekends I used to have)

try one of the many data recovery programs (or spend the small fortune of taking it to a data recovery service). PRIOR to that though MAKE SURE yourslaving the new drive to the original (DON'T put it as MASTER on the second IDE channel...I've found computers don'tlike that unless you have NTLDR set up for a dual boot.) Email me at jasonruiz@yahoo.com OR kryptkeeper@myway.com if you'd like somehelp in trying to get it working (unless you feel like spending the LD call...youcan callme @ 915-269-8880 (ifyour on a land line, I'll call you rigfht back since it comes off my cell minutes either way and I don't get charged extra for LD calls (unless I'mn outta minutes...then that's a differant story...it'snever happened but I know LD minutes are somethinglike $.89 vs. $.37 or so for extra minutes....i used to go over my minutes so I upped my plan now I have yet to go over...was well worth the extra $10 a month. I didn't always go over but when I did it was by WAY MORE than $10...1hr extra ran something like $20.00 and I'dgo over up to 2 hours somem months. for an extra $10, I got an extra 5hrs...double what it used to be PEAK hours and something like TRIPLE the 500MIN OFF PEAK/Weekends I used to have)