"Paul" wrote

| You should be able to pull the drive, and work on it
| in your technician machine. It's likely to be a 2.5"
| SATA with standard SATA connectors.
|

It's been backed up. No problem there. I plugged
it in with a USB adaptor to my XP machine and disk
manager says it's healthy but it doesn't show up in
My Computer. I can't boot a CD in the laptop.
I'm guessing this is possibly encrypted and certainly
NTFS. What do I need to see the files on that?
I have WinXP and Win7-64. Should 7 see it if I just
plug it in as a data drive?

| Check the SMART stats on the hard drive.
|
| See if the partitions that should be visible, have
| files showing.
|