Thanks for writing in Erle,
I did get the HDD and connected it to my machine. It seems like the HDD has bad sectors. Now, even a "fdisk -l" refuses to work with innumerable io errors.
Will have to bury the poor one. Am trying to recover the data on it. Any ideas???. It has am ext3 partition.
Trevor
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