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My PCs don't recognize my ext HD

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Windows Vista scenario

Summary: HD had its boot sector blown away. Put it in external enclosure. However the HD, in its external encl. is not being recognized by Windows Explorer. Meaning, I go to Win Explorer, My Computer and the drive does not show up. So my question is what FREE software can I use to retrieve my lost files from this HD?

More details: HD is good. PC can see it via CTL PNL->Amin Tools->Computer Mgmt->Disk Mgmt can SEE the HD in the enclosure. It gives it EISA Healthy.

Troubleshots taken: Tried HD on several other different PCs. Same result. (no see HD). Enclosure is good. I put a diffrent HD in it and it worked fine.

So goes back to my original question, what software (FREE) can I use to retrieve my lost files? I do know about Pandora Recovery and Recuva and all those but those software assume you can access the drive. I can't!

I thought I read that creating a bootable Linux CD can see the corrupt external HD, is this really true?

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Reply to josephfuentes

try Hrens Boot CD.. it has lot of stuff in it..

Reply to manojgj

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