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You could use something like an Ubuntu Live which allows you to boot into Ubuntu using a CD or USB (no install). It's normally pretty good at mounting drives if they're readable. If the drive appears, you can have a look and see what's on it, you could mount an external drive and copy any data across, if it doesn't appear, it's probably dead.
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I had that stuff in the past but it'll all be on optical discs and this doesn't have a CD drive, although I do still have an external drive so maybe. But the BIOS doesn't see it so I don't see how a linux boot cd would see it. I'm assuming it's very dead.
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If it is not seen in the bios nothing will see it.
hippy
lynx
Still tempted to just bang Windows on the Data drive and run it until death. I'm just worried that might be sooner rather than later if it's component death time. Who's to say a mobo issue didn't kill the drive or the power supply or something?