HDD suddenly failed, please help

I have an IBM IC35L120 HDD, set up as slave on IDE2, running Windows XP SP2.
I have an Asus A7V333 mobo. All was well until yesterday when my system
slowed then ground to a halt. I rebooted and then did not have the drive
available to me in My Computer. The drive shows up in Device Manager with no
warnings but in the Computer Management console it is shown as 'Offline'.
The first warnings I can see in Event Manager is this: ('Gary' being the
name of my computer)

"Disk group GaryDg0: Errors in some configuration copies: Disk Harddisk2,
copy 1: Block 1: Invalid magic number in the configuration copy"

followed by:

"INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies
(C10000B6)"

then this:

"The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk2\D."

The only thing I can do in the Disk Management console is attempt to
reactivate the disk but Windows tells me that 'The operation did not
complete'.

The disk is just over a year old - I would be very grateful if anyone could
help me to get this thing going again.

Gary



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