Try hooking it up as a non-boot drive and see if you can access the data.
If you can, then copy it over to a good drive asap < s >.

I wouldn't trust the drive as a secondary in the longer term.

good luck


>Have someones hard drive that has a problem with booting up. It was sporadically doing it, now it doesn't come up at all. They are getting a new one, but I was going to try and recover some of their data. Are there any utilities that can help with this? It's not worth sending off to have done - nothing that critical - but I would like to try. If it won't boot up, is there any way to get to the data, or at least format to drive so it can be used as a secondary?