It's completely disappeared. It isn't a discrete physical drive; it's a sub-drive that BB set up on the hard drive, so when you can't find it via any of your internal search programs (Internet explorer, PowerDesk, etc.) then you can't even check to see if anything can be recovered.
When BB had an external storage hard drive go bad a while back, he was able to recover something like 80 percent of it over the space of a week, by wrapping the drive up and putting it in the freezer, pulling it out and off-loading onto a new external drive until the thing heated up and seized again; then it was back to the freezer for another 12 hours or so, lather, rinse, repeat. But this is completely different.
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When BB had an external storage hard drive go bad a while back, he was able to recover something like 80 percent of it over the space of a week, by wrapping the drive up and putting it in the freezer, pulling it out and off-loading onto a new external drive until the thing heated up and seized again; then it was back to the freezer for another 12 hours or so, lather, rinse, repeat. But this is completely different.