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[tenchir]

My 3 year old 40 GB Maxtor HDD finally died today. The drive still spins, but my computer won't detect it. Both the Bios and Windows doesn't see it. I tried using the drive in the freezer trick, but that didn't help. Are there any software I can use to extract data from the HDD?

Edit: Tried using external USB2.0 enclosures too, doesn't detect it.

 

[Diablos]

You're SOL unless you wanna spend thousands of dollars for professional data recovery, and even then it's said there is a 50/50 chance.

 

[Jade Knight 08]

SOL ?

 

[Ecrofirt]

Shit Outta Luck

 

[tenchir]

Shit Outta Luck

That's what I thought. Going to try to run knoppix or a version of LiveCD to see if I can mount it.