Model 5T020H2



"HddGuru" wrote in message
om...
Hi Jim,

What model do you have?

Hd




"Jim" wrote in message
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Apologies if this has been asked before, I am new to all of this.

I have a Maxtor 20GB Hard Drive 7200.

Manufactured in Feb 2001, and has worked fine until I did a computer
restart
the other day. Suddenly it is not recognised, says no bootable drive.
I
went to the Maxtor website and downloaded a Maxtor Diagnostic Floppy,
and
this said the drive was fine, as it passed all tests. Yet it still will
not
boot the computer :-( Says not bootable.

I am using an old 1GB drive to get online, by the way.

If I connect the 20GB as a Slave (removing the jumpers to do so) - it
shows
the drive detected when booting up.

BUT - in My Computer, it does not appear at all. Also does not appear
in
DOS.

I am going crazy, don't know what to do next. I have so much precious
data
that I need to recover at least.