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Is there an easy way to recover data off this defective SATA drive?

I have a hard disk, Seagate barracuda 1000GB drive that has gone defective. I had a backup of most things but it looks like there's a couple of Outlook PST files that weren't backed up.  Not a big deal but I wouldn't mind getting them back if I could.

When I plug the drive into a USB interface and plug it into another PC, no drive letter shows.  When I go to disk management it thinks I've plugged a brand new drive in and gives me the initialization prompt for that drive.  It sits in Disk Management as "Not initialized".

Other than paying big bucks to a recovery company, is there anything I can do here?
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Another thing to try is to boot using a live Linux CD (or USB drive) and see if it can recognize the drive and read files from it
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