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OK thanks for all the help, and Mak213, sorry I started the second thread my mistake. When I turn the drive on, in the portable enclosure, windows sees the device. I get the tone, then "safe to remove hardware" notice. But I can not see the drive in windows anywhere. I see the device in device manager, but that's it.
I had a friend over last night that's a pretty sharp IT type, basically I messed up. I'm still learning. My hard drive was in a portable enclosure, and I used it as my back up on my computer and my wives. Well I guess one time I disconnected it from the computer before it was ready, and didn't use the "safe to remove hardware". I thought I could just remove it when I was done, but as my friend explained, and I'm sure you all know, if you disconnect it before the drive is done accessing files and such, it leaves the boot sector messed up some how, and then you cant access it. Which is where I am. So my friend told me he has fixed this same problem before, basically a bad boot sector. HE staid he hooks it up to one of his computers with some recovery software, that will run for a day or so searching and recovering all the files, transfers them to his hard drive, formats mine, then , then puts my files back on my drive. I don't know what software he uses, I'll have to ask him next time.
I had a friend over last night that's a pretty sharp IT type, basically I messed up. I'm still learning. My hard drive was in a portable enclosure, and I used it as my back up on my computer and my wives. Well I guess one time I disconnected it from the computer before it was ready, and didn't use the "safe to remove hardware". I thought I could just remove it when I was done, but as my friend explained, and I'm sure you all know, if you disconnect it before the drive is done accessing files and such, it leaves the boot sector messed up some how, and then you cant access it. Which is where I am. So my friend told me he has fixed this same problem before, basically a bad boot sector. HE staid he hooks it up to one of his computers with some recovery software, that will run for a day or so searching and recovering all the files, transfers them to his hard drive, formats mine, then , then puts my files back on my drive. I don't know what software he uses, I'll have to ask him next time.