firstmateirongut wrote:

> so, ok i can't even open the hard drive, because my computer is quite
> insistent that it is a cd drive, no matter how i open it, it asks for a
> cd.... so there is no way to even format it.. tried using DOS, but to no
> avail

Then as I already said:

>> If that doesn't help, either boot with a Linux Live CD to get the data
>> off the slave drive or put the slave drive into another working computer
>> (either by temporarily slaving it or by putting it into a USB drive
>> enclosure). Once the data is off the drive, format it.

DOS cannot see NTFS-formatted drives.

Malke
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