Trying to recover data from laptop hard drive

[kmkz99]

In a nutshell, had a small spill on upper right corner of Dell Inspiron 1505. Turned laptop over on a towel for a day, then blew out keyboard area to remove/dry any remaining moisture. Laptop booted up and worked for about 5 minutes. Then blue-screened. Wouldn't boot up again, failed DST short test. Hard drive had no trace of the liquid on it. Dell shipped me a blank hard drive, it worked. Is it possible that the hard drive is irrecoverable?? Please, anyone, any suggestions??? Thanks

 

[G0AOZ]

It depends on what precisely has caused it to stop working. Try attaching the drive to a desktop computer. My info tells me it has a 60Gb SATA drive, so the motherboard in the PC you're going to attach it to must have that type of connector. (Or a suitable convertor). Then check if the BIOS recognises it, and see if Windows finds it in Disk Management.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[Reex]

Sorry to hear your misfortune.
I think you can connect the drive to laptop again. If you can see it in the Disk Management, there is a highly possibility to recover the data by data recovery software.

Data Recovery Wizard
Partition Table Doctor
EASEUS Partition Manager

 

[easeusptd]

Hi, I cannot agree with the Reex’s suggestion anymore. I am very familiar with every product of EASEUS. So I will highly recommend Data Recovery Wizard for your current problem. Here’s the link:

http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/index.htm.

easeusptd