Another one bites the dust...

Well, wouldn't you know that another piece of technology has failed. The secondary hard drive in the system Evo_ps2(I wonder what I got when I was working on it..) decided to die after recently powering up the system once again, and now after disassembling it...replacing the ide cable... retesting it...still failure...no partition recognized..hard reading from it...move it over to the new tower disabling the 120 and put in the 20. After 3 attempts system recognizes the presence of the drive for post, but failed when it tried loading. Endless boot loop...ugh remove drive...reconnect stuff...perfect boot.

Conclusion: Drive is beyond my level of expertise to recover data, may need to seek outside help. But is it worth it for professional recovery assistance.
Bloody Maxtor drive. Western Digitals seem to be in gret running order, may need an external hd or dvd burner to start backing up other drives.

Suggestions appreciated.