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Hi I have a Seagate 80GB (Model: ST380020A) from 2002, it failed in 2004. Because it's an old drive (IDE) I'm going to attempt to clone it in an old PC so I can connect it internally. This is the original PC the drive came from which makes me wonder whether to use an older version of Knoppix...

Jared, If I clone the hard drive will it copy the files which are inaccessible? - There are currently no files visible and only a deep scan (EaseUs) shows that there are files. Help appreciated.

I just checked - it's a seagate not maxtor, my mistake.

Thanks for link Jared, I have a Knoppix live cd somewhere I'll try what you suggested and let you know what happens. As far as whether or not I was telling the truth about taking apart the hard drive and fixing the clicking noise, I followed this tutorial...

Hi All I've got a Maxtor 80GB HD from 2002 and it failed in 2004. I've kept it in the hope that one day I can get important text documents off it (I'm a writer). I scanned it with EaseUs 5.8 a few years ago while the HD was still broke (clicking noise and not booting or being detected) and got...