Alright, I have had this problem for going on two days now, and I've been doing various solutions I have found over the internet, but nothing is working!

My problem is this:

I receive a stop: 0x024 error (corrupt NTFS.sys file) when booting up my machine with my drive that I use for storage connected to the computer. If I disconnect the drive, my computer boots up fine. So I reason out that the problematic drive is, of course, my second drive.

I'm sure all of the solutions I have tried WOULD work, but there is one problem!

THE DRIVE IS NEVER VISIBLE/DETECTABLE!

I have ran Knoppix from a boot cd and viewed the detectable drives, and I only get my main drive. BUT, I can feel and hear the HDD spinning, so I'm fairly sure that the drive isn't broken or anything.

One obstacle with my situation might be the fact that the drive is connected on an expansion IDE card, and the card has a BIOS of its own that runs AFTER the computer BIOS displays, so is there any chance that this could be conflicting with my recovery of the data and/or drive?

So, does anyone know of ANY way to recover my drive? It's not my main drive so there is no Windows information on it, and my BIOS won't recognize it but it still spins normal so I don't think the drive is broken.

I am running Windows XP Home edition, Pentium 4.