since you're posting im assuming you do have access to the internet on a working computer. Read my previous post and give that a try. Not too long ago my gf gave me her moms hd that wouldn't boot and i couldn't get it to boot or access it through pclinux or as a slave, i did some googling though and found a couple very useful hd tools :

ADRC_Data_Recovery_Tools_v1.01
ADRC_Hard_Disk_Checker_v1.0

very small prog, the data recovery tools allowed me to make a complete image of the hard drive (40gb) and then i took that image and put it onto the hard drive and then it would boot. $100 per gb.... i joked that she owed me money but as a running joke we both dont accept money as payments for things hehe


ANYHOW. On topic. Computer = pwnd, yep.

I completely raped my computer last night. I got a new video card (x1950 xt sapphire) and this thing is gigantic. could not get it to seat completely into the pci-e slot and so i unscrewed the mobo and lifted it up some and then the card went into the slot however when i started the computer it gave me just garbled nonsense on the screen... grrrr. i ended up removing it and then booted off of the onboard card and it booted fine into windows, was going to install the onboard drivers for my vista and cmputer restarted so i was pushing del to get into the bios to check on memory settings and instead of bios coming up, this gigabyte quick recovery feature they have started to run... so i turned off my computer... then, no boot. i tried taking out the battery to reset cmos but the damn thing would not budge. i jumpered the jumper to reset it ( manual says you can do either way) and nothing .... then when starting it it sounded like power was kicking down really low after the initial startup.

this morning, i put in my old mobo and it did the same thing that the other did so i am hoping that my motherboard is not totally trashed since the other mobo did the same thing... maybe it is the powersuppoly... or maybe i am grounding out on the case... IDFK... at the end of the night though my computer was totally raped and in pieces. (will post picture later)