Corrupted SATA HD - please help
Hi
I have a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 120GB SATA HD which has gone duff, in a Dell PC.
Dell put in a new one under their on-site warranty but they can't help with the old one.
The old one was connected to the secondary HD controller and after some intermittent problems (possibly temperature dependent) the BIOS now recognises it correctly.
However XP doesn't. It says it isn't formatted. Upon boot-up it spent hours reporting lots of duff clusters. The partition is NTFS.
It could be a duff controller PCB, or (less likely I think) a fault elsewhere.
Can any data recovery experts here suggest anything I can do? The data on it isn't priceless but is probably worth a few hundred quid - a huge amount of aggro really.