well, I am afraid that we might have destroyed the hard drive
( now we're getting into that long story of why I need it) my dad tried to plug this hdd into another comp. but unfortunatly, forgot to turn off the computer first. So, there was a spark, and now it is doing some wierd things, definatly not loading the data. I am not sure what he did, and I have never installed a harddisk into a different computer, so we are having sombody we know, who knows more about it, check it out to see if it is totalled. I may not be able to get the data back from the hdd, that's why I am trying to find out if I can get it from this disk. maybe this will make things more clear.