Help me recover my data please.....

[rudeboymcc]

HI. I've got Mandriva 2007 powerpack and a laptop ide hard disk which my BIOS can't find at all. says there's nothing htere.

Someone suggested i plug it into a usb enclosure and try it frm there. only problem is i don't know what to use or if there is a program to recover my data.

Can anyone recommend a method to me please? or any commands that i can try out. i'm a linux newbie but i can use the console and any comands you suggest.

The data was not deleted, the hard disk just stopped working one morning (said "operating system not found"), but im hoping that linux can save the day.

 

[rudeboymcc]

The drive is from a windows laptop but can't remmeber if it was fat32 or NTFS.

I've tried puting it in my desktop computer and it didn;t recognise it in the bios.

I want to use linux to recover data from the windows drive basically.
thanks any help is appreciated!