Contact Maxtor technical support immediately.

--
Ted Zieglar
"You can do it if you try."

"nat" <truhommie4life@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:6F40B231-7A38-4F92-B371-5714E91A0828@microsoft.com...
> I have a Maxtor 120GB Hard drive that cannot be detected by my computer.
This
> is how it all happened: I put on my computer and it was running fine, but
> after about 20 minutes I began to hear an unusual sound, some windows
closing
> on their own. This prompted me to shut down, which was successful. Upon
> opening my system unit, I discovered that the hard disk was exceedingly
hot.
> I allowed the hard disk to cool down, covered my system unit and powered
on.
> This was the point the bios refused to detect the presence of the
harddrive.
>
> On the other hand, when I touched the body of the hard drive I noticed
that
> It wasn't spinning.
>
> Please advice me on what to do to solve this problem as I have tonnes of
> important files I cannot afford to miss.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Nat