I am helping out a friend whose HD was failing. I have always had good luck booting into Knoppix and getting the data off of failing drives. But not this time....

The system would not boot and the BIOS would only see the drive some of the time. I have connected it to my laptop as an external USB drive but I cannot not see it in KNOPPIX. Dmesg shows the following:

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-7: device not accepting address 3, error -71
usb 5-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 5-7: device not accepting address 3, error -71
usb 5-7: USB disconnect, address 3
scsi 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery
usb-storage: device scan complete
usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: device descriptor read/64, error -71
usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
usb 5-7: device not accepting address 6, error -71
usb 5-7: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 5-7: device not accepting address 7, error -71



IS there anything I can do to actually see this drive?