Dead HDD, recovering info, HELP!

LizardProtection

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Hello,

My internal hard drive died a bit ago, symptoms were "bad sectors", there were fixed by formatting but after some time they kept coming back.

I had windows on it, one day windows was very stuttering and bugged out on me, only solution was to restart computer and after that in couple of seconds it did the same. I figured it was HDDs fault, went and bought new one, the problem was fixed but now the other HDD is not working at all and I have some vital information on it and need it asap!

I tried making it slave HDD and booting windows up that way but windows gets stuck on startup (when you turn on your computer and windows sign comes out there.)

I also tried my SATA -> USB adapter that I got from my Mobile HDD (I just took it apart took off the adapter and put it in my PC for extra space to store music and so on hehe) but when I connect my old HDD with it, windows says that it wasn't able to find any drivers so it can't see damn hard drive itself!

HDD doesn't show up in device manager when I connect it with the adapter, and I can't launch windows when I have it connected through SATA to my motherboard...

What can I do in this situation? is there a way to recover the lost data?
It didn't make any strange sounds or anything at all.

I tried to be as specific as I could, if you have any questions go ahead I'll be glad to answer all of them (if I can...)!

thanks in advance.
 
Solution
If you connect it as a slave drive and recovia or other drive recovery software does not see the drive then the drive controller or pcb went bad. You can on some drives try changing the pcb and get the drive to work.

LizardProtection

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it doesn't actually show up in Disk Management, is there something I should do to make it show up?