Digital BW, The Print

Hi Paul,

>The old drive appears to
> physically work, with the caveat that I can't enter the PW to get to my
> user data; so it's useless. I also notice that the drive gets very hot.
 I had this same situation happen and from what you describe, your disk still has one chance. Borrow a mac and read the disk from a mac. You wont need your password, just get to the folders you need and copy them. 
I hope it works for you, it did for me!

Pablo