On a 4 year old Dell, i had this drive which all of a sudden popped up this error on boot-up;

Hard Drive SELF MONITORING SYSTEM has reported that a parameter has exceeded its normal operating range. Dell recommends that you back up your data regularly. A parameter out of range may or may not indicate a potential hard drive problem. Press F2 to continue

This error keeps popping up no matter what I do. Searched web for help, but no luck. I just want to save the data. I have already installed a new drive and my system is running, but i cannot access the old drive. Whenever I hook it up, and reboot system it still gives me the same error. If I unplug the drive all runs well.

Does anyone have any clue, idea. All i want is the info from the drive and I will be happy. Yes, I know I learned to backup in future.

Anyone???

Put the drive into another system as a "slave" and copy of your files.

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Hello Spildit;

I obviously do not know what I am doing. I mean I can follow stuff and do the basic, but not technical enough to get too complex with this issue. I mean I removed the drive, put in a new one, installed the new Win 7 OS and have the system up and running. I cannot find a way to access the old drive, even when I plug it into the old system as a second drive.

A data recovery company? I wonder which is a decent one in Toronto, Canada?