I have an old IDE hdd that my parents want to get their files off of. I thought that I could just basically plug the drive into my computer, set it as a slave in the bios, and go from there.

According to the feedback of the affected users, the problem is occurring mostly on the C drive. However, you may face such a type of issue on any hard disk partition on your computer. The solutions ...

*update*<BR><BR>I was able to format the drive through Maxblast (which I could not do through my XP disc), so it appears that the hard drive is not dead but was simply corrupted.