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I dont know if this will help any but I recently had a hard drive do the same thing. The only thing that I found, out of 20 something products that i treid, to recover the files from the drive with was 'zero assumption recovery'. this thing will recover anything and beats all the others hands down. anyway, I had the security descriptor error, and i'll be willing to bet that you will develop a media descriptor error too a little later after you try numerous times to recover the drive thru either windows utilities or partition magic stuff. I had been using partition magic 8 on the drive to create multiple partitions with only 1 primary partition. I personally think its something to do with partition magic 8 myself because the problem did not happen until after i used partiton magic 8 to creat the partitions. I've created multiple partitions on this same drive in the past manually without partition magic and never had a moments problem with it. after i recoverd all the data (recovered perfectly with zero assumption recovery) I had to reformat the drive to make it usable again.
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