Sounds like the Drives Platters Don't Spin as they should anymore, Pain in the A$$ I Know, Age and Heat causes this Mostly. It is possible to save the data I checked the site Burning posted and it is Pretty easy to understand, Some of these sites go OVERBOARD with the computer jargon, Take your time it does not sound like your Drive is completely dead, so it should not be to bad. Sometimes if you slap the drive the platters will line up on the Spindel and spin freely again for a while. A word of advise slapping the drive can make it worse, however if you do slap it and it works, DO NOT SHUT THE COMPUTER DOWN, Get everything off first, becasuse more often than not after Slapping and gettting it to work again, the moment it shuts down chances are that it wont start again
Last edited by slapped; 06-12-2010 at 10:08 PM.
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