Steve, the comment about what kind of crash is important. I too had a FAT failure and was able to load a recovery program into another computer and plug in the crashed drive as an external and recover all my files.

However, if you've suffered a physical crash like you hear the dreaded clicking sound that means there is damage to the heads then the drive is truly toast. That happened to me with an external backup drive that dropped onto the floor while it was running. That'll do it for sure. You can drop a drive that is not spinning with no problems but if it's running it's over.

Bob


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