i have had good luck with the ultimate boot disk as well - it has all sorts of disk utilities, recovery tools. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ good luck. Donovan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Dan Smith <dan.smith225 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a NTFS related question... I bought a Seagate Xtreme FreeAgent 1tb >> drive. My question/problem is.. I had partitioned the drive as one chunk and >> started to move data to this parition as my WD mybook is failing. I plugged >> in the free agent yesterday and the drive would not attach to the system. >> Though yes, I am running Vista for the moment, that isn't the problem. I >> think it was a bad drive in the free agent. My question to the group is >> there any free/opensource apps to view the drive and attempt to extract any >> files from it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dan >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> > > I've seen the Enclosure hardware fail often on the FreeAgents. If > you're not going to try to get it replaced by warranty I would say > crack it open, yank the drive out and try to mount it without the > enclosure. I've had two do something similar to your's in under a > year. > > >