Data Recovery

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The HDD in my friend's laptop has recently died and naturally he is almost in tears having lost all his photos and coursework which needs to be submitted this week for his degree! Is there any data recovery software/hardware that can be used to recover data from drives that the BIOS cannot detect? I think the electronics are fried because the drive cannot be detected in his laptop or mine. I have an adapter on the way which will allow me to connect it to my desktop pc. Any thoughts (aside from sending it to a specialist)? The drive in question ins a 40gb IBM travelstar.

edit: was meant for general hardware
 
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Change it to the harddrive forum and not the graphics card and you may get more help.

O&O RescueBox V4? there are others. Runs off a bootable cd.
 
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If its fried apart from sending it to specialist for megabucks, they only other thing is if you have or can get the exact same drive and swap the PCB. I've used this myself, but its got to be the exact same drive.
 
If he definitely must get the data back then a recovery firm is the best option. You're talking several 100 £££ though... Best make that decision now rather than mess with it, an aborted recovery attempt is more likely to do more damage - at the moment it sounds a fairly straightforward recovery job.
 
Let this be a reminder to everyone, backup! I was so paronid with my Disertation at Uni I had four copies one on my PC, one on my File server, one on a pen drive and a final copy on the uni server!
 
Thanks for the advice. I've decided to get another 40gb travelstar and attempt to transplant the IDE interface. Worst case i can just use the new travelstar to replace the faulty one. Err perhaps the real worst case is damaging both drives irreparably but it seems likea chance worth taking.
 
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