"Gareth Magennis" wrote in message
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Hi,

my Western Digital 120G hard drive went faulty. It has loads of photo
transparency scans on it that I spent a week inputting! Wah!

Anyway I'm resigned to having lost them, but am interested in what
happned. Windows 98 reported that there was going to be an imminent
failure of the drive and I should back it up immediately. I
didn't/couldn't and Windows was right. I managed to transfer some
important recorded music first - the transfer got slower and slower and
eventually the disc died completely and wouldn't transfer anything else.
I think the file names are still all there but it just hunts and hangs
when you try and copy anything.

Any info on what happened or suggestions of recovery?



Thanks,


Gareth.


Thanks very much for the replies, I shall try all the suggestions.


Gareth.