Still worth setting it up as slave on another pc. Had similar experience couple of years ago with kids PC . managed to recover 80% data though there were many bad sectors... Dinesh....... On 18 Oct 2010, at 13:16, Declan Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Learned denizens of GP-UK. > Any non-expensive ideas on data recovery? 500GB Sumsung in a La Cie enclosure and it has gone into whirr-clock mode. Direct connection to the motherboard gets it recognised by the BIOS and XP but nothing readable. > Kind of sounds like it is something fairly simple with the head but I don't know for sure. > Declan