I was told by a tech that the drive was reading at the time of the power outage and that the reader head must have touched the disc surface and destroyed the boot section
because it can't be read by any of the tools that we have tried including the Maxtor recover disc from the manufactuer... I have pulled the disc and installed it into
other computers as a main and as a slave and
iy can't be read by any means so far...in order to use the file recovery prograns mentioned above, they must first be downloaded into the hard drive and the drive can't be read..not as a slave drive or a main drive.....I am open to all ideas
and will try anything.....thank you to all..
Tony Rome