Normally I wouldn't pull a I need it as soon as i can because I have to get it done tonight kind of thing but my employer ate up my whole tech bench night teaching me the fine art of conning clients out of money... Don't ask I'll talk of that later. I have a laptop that bluescreens when it tries to boot into vista. I slaved the drive into my win7 machine. It sees the drive but only as a big fat 0 sized drive that can't be accessed. However if I log into partition magic or acronis's partition manager they claim the partition is fine and can see it. If I try using a windows installation disk to run the recovery console it says that it can't find the drive. So has anyone else come across this? As far as things look to me his data is pretty much gone until I reinstall windows and try to use data recovery on a formated and reinstalled drive.