System - Home build Win XP
I SATA hard drive (C) and one IDE hard drive (F).

Was using the system yesterday and both drives appeared to be working
normally when I heard 2 sounds (like klink klink).

I immediately shut down the system thinking my C drive was failing.

I used Acronis to backup my C drive with no errors so I rebooted and
immediately got the 2 sounds again. However, the system booted normally
but my F drive was now missing.

Went into Disk management and it said the F drive needed to be initialized.
The drive is spinning but is not recognized.

I then put it into a portable enclosure and connected it to my Win 7 machine.
Win 7 gives the USB insertion beep but doesn't see the drive.

Is this drive now toast? Can data be recovered at all?

Any suggestions?

Data should be recoverable on this drive.
Best thing to do is to send it to known data recovery pro, which could recover your data for relatively low price.

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r-studio or stellar phoenix. infact

http://findandmount.com/

this one is free

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If the system does not see the drive, how can it find any partition?

sorry I was looking at this line

"Went into Disk management and it said the F drive needed to be initialized.
The drive is spinning but is not recognized."

If it was giving you that error the above would work

if its not recognised anymore then it wont, sorry read it too quickly and I need my dinner

andy

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