[Half-Duplex]

R-Studio NTFS works really well. Saved my ass twice and well worth the $50 if you're out of options/desperate.

Will this recover a drive that has locked itself into a failsafe mode?

Here's my situation: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news...11-failing

A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.