DO NOT TRY THE FREEZER TRICK!

That will make things worse (and possibly making your data totally unrecoverable).

FYI, your HDD suffered the infamous Maxtor "N40P" firmware corruption issues. More information here:

Data recovery on Maxtor 6Exxx "N40P" hard disks:

Intellirecovery Data Recovery News and Updates: November 2004: Hard Disk Drive Failure Report: Increasing failures on Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 hard disk drives, AKA The N40P

In other words, not much can be done... either send to a professional data recovery service or find a repair software that can correct the firmware again.

Folks here, please do not mention the mythical freezer trick, methinks this is gonna be a warning.

This post has been edited by lex: Jul 20 2007, 11:34 AM