The drive is faulty. To attempt recovery of your files, mount the drive in a 2.5" USB 2.0/EIDE ( not SATA) external case - $10-20 from newegg.com, etc., and attach it to a working system by USB. See if you can read some or all of your data. If you can, copy the files to the host system's hard drive. If you can't read the data, you'll have to decide whether to redo the presentations or have a data recovery service look at the drive (which will run well into four figures in dollars).
For a replacement drive, you need a 2.5" 9.5 mm EIDE notebook drive, 120 G or smaller.
ejn63
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August 29th, 2009 15:00
The drive is faulty. To attempt recovery of your files, mount the drive in a 2.5" USB 2.0/EIDE ( not SATA) external case - $10-20 from newegg.com, etc., and attach it to a working system by USB. See if you can read some or all of your data. If you can, copy the files to the host system's hard drive. If you can't read the data, you'll have to decide whether to redo the presentations or have a data recovery service look at the drive (which will run well into four figures in dollars).
For a replacement drive, you need a 2.5" 9.5 mm EIDE notebook drive, 120 G or smaller.
pathfinderadc
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August 30th, 2009 18:00
thank you - I will try that. I appreciate the help