redgecko

Ok here it Goes...

I have a SATA Hitachi Travelstar HD that was OEM in a Gateway laptop that kicked the bucket a couple of weeks ago, and I have desperately been trying to recover the HD. Here is what I have done so far. Using the Drive Health Tester from Hitachi, the drive has no physical errors. Installed into my Athlon desktop via an ESATA removable HD enclosure/dock, It is recognized by the BIOS, Device Manager, and Disk Manager (comes up as a SCSI devise but I understand that is common), however, My Computer doesn't show anything and Disk Manager shows the drive without a drive letter. I have also attempted to access the drive via USB on both a PC & Macbook to no avail. I was sucessful in "seeing" the disk contents using file recovery software, but this is an option of last resort as it is crazy expensive. The software said that the drive was "unmounted". Any suggestions would be welcomed. THX