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Trying to recover data from laptop hard drive

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kmkz99

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Jun 14, 2008
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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
 
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.

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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
 
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