vile see if you can set it up as a slave and see if it can be picked up, i thought i had lost my harddrive not so long ago until my stepson came around and put the new one in and set my old one up as a slave. i was able to transfer things from the old harddrive onto the new one with no problems. Yes the harddrive was buggered but at least i was able to save everything onto the new one.