Need to recover data from a drive that lost it's partition

I'm using Windows XP

I have a drive that one day made some clicking noise.

After I rebooted, it stopped clicking. It also stopped showing up in My Computer. In fact it doesn't even show up in the Computer Management Section of the Administrator's Tools. However, the BIOS does recognize it.

Now, the info on the drive is not absolutely critical, and can probably be reproduced with a LOT of effort. But, it's not worth sending it to a company which would charge me $500 at a minimum.

So, is there any software that can do data recovery and allow me to get those files?

 

it sounds like it has stopped running. if that case you cant get the data. you could try taking it out and banging it on the floor to see if you can get it running one more time. then plug it in as a slave on another computer and extract the data.
funny thing about backing up. it seems like a waste of time until we need it.

 

I know it is running. I found a program that seems to be able to access it called r-studio. But it hasn't found any data yet. At the rate it's going, it's going to take many days to go thru the entire drive.

 

if its running put in another computer as the slave drive and look in it. if the data is there you should be able to see it.

 

Take the drive out now! You're only chance with a clicking drive is to send it to a pro.

 

The "Recover My Files" program worked for me when I accidently deleted a partition.

Harold

 

Put it in another computer in slave mode. Then use "Easy Recovery". It is software by Ontrack. It works great

Erik

 

I bet it is a Maxtor.

 

Yup, seen that many times with Maxtors. Clicking is their favorite form of death.