I had a drive behave like this once. Rather than trying to get Windows to recognise it, I recovered most of the data using a prodct called R-Studio <http://www.r-tt.com/> - looking at their website the software should identify and cope with pretty much anything, They've a downloadable demo so you can see if it will work for you.. I used it on a FreeBSD drive, via a USB-IDE adapter on a WInXP laptop, so a old Windows drive should be a doddle.