Windows killed my Amiga hard drive, can I recover?

[Stedy]

Hi,

I guess the topic says it all.

I plugged my 1.4 Gig 2.5" IDE hdd into my PC to try and read the data into WinUAE. It was recognised by the PC BIOS/Windows XP on the first boot. I tried to access it via WinUAE but to no avail, I rebooted and the PC hung at POST. I removed the drive and the PC booted.

I can not get this drive to be recognised by the Amiga or a PC. It spins up but that is all.

Is it possible that something wrote a bad value into the IDE control registers? Do they have a FLASH/EEPROM on a HDD?

Any suggestions or help appreciated.

[Stedy]

Hi,

A bit more information.

I used a 2.5" to 3.5" IDE converter in a desktop PC. The IDE drive was the only device on IDE chain #2 of my PC.

I can not get to the BIOS screen with this drive plugged in! Arse!

I used some software to detect the drive, I think that may have done the damage, I can not find the name of this software at the present time.

I will look on the Hitachi website for some tools, the drive is a Hitachi DK221 IIRC.

Thanks for the advice so far.

Ian