My backup disk, wich was properly cooled and powered by Thermaltake PSU 450W, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 160GB SATA/150 HDD with sn: Y48KJA7E 6Y160M00469AB AAA manifacturing date february 2005 and made in Singapore
sudenly after power lack of 30mins failed to respond. Agere , samsung cache memory and SMOOTH chip are there and on serial ata plug there is a M8818030-TBC

It behave like this: when I boot machine it is recognised by the bios perfectly and when windows start to loading my computer stay on same place as long as it is powered.

I would like to know some methods first software than hardware how i could sick datas from it and put it then on some wall as suvenir. Until then my eyes are red, there are so much painly colected pro software and some always lost family stafs.....

Thank you to all who can help me!

I would download knoppix from here http://www.knopper.net burn the ISO to CD and boot your computer with it. You should have new media ready to copy the data off. It sounds like possible file system corruption, and can be relatively easy to recover your data
Shawn

Hi,
And if you are not familiar with Linux (Knoppix) you can put the driva into another computer (friends, mom,dad) and copy your files over to that harddrive.
When you're done just put your drive back in your computer and reinstall your system.
As Shawn said, it's probably just a logical failure in your filesystem, and your data should be fully intact.

Regards

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actualy i tryed on linux mandriva, win2003 server and winxp, also i have knopix will try with it, but things are worst than you predicted. I cant boot windows when that hd is conected and linux cant mount it. Will try first with Easy Recovery PRO what you say ?

Hi

I would wote for cloning that disk first, then use a logical recovery soft.

pepe

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