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Originally Posted by Renato1
If the hard drive has actually failed, it can still be recovered, but it is a lot more expensive as one has to get some lab do it.
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Or there's the freezer method, which works as often as it doesn't with mechanical drives, and is therefore worth trying. (Unless the OP no longer has the drive.)
For those who aren't familiar with this ancient trick, you first seal the HDD in a plastic bag and place both in a freezer for a while (overnight is good). Once frozen, connect to a PC and boot from CD/DVD/USB into a disc imaging application, such as Acronis True Image or similar... You may get lucky and the drive will live again just long enough to get a complete image of the contents. If so, you can throw away the drive. If not, you can throw away the drive...
Over the years, my success rate would be around 50% with this method.