Data recovery

Rindi gives sound advice in that your should connect it as a secondary SATA hdd. Recuva is also a pretty solid program from data recovery from a crashed HDD. I know Gibson Research GRC made a pretty handy tool a while back that you could run on a "crashed" HDD that had a pretty good recovery rate.

@rindi will there be a connector in my desktop for the laptop hdd?  I dont remember anymore

Usually desktop pc's have several data connections. Laptops use the same star connections for their disks. Just container for the disk is smaller. 

There are many approaches.

Best if you place the drive in a Dock as suggested above.

My brother runs a data recovery business + swears by the following Redneckery...

1) Run a long cable to the drive.

2) Place drive in ziplock bag + seal it well. Using a large back work best.

3) Submerge the part of the ziplock back with drive in beer cooler filled with ice + water.

4) Leave to an hour or so to cool the drive down.

5) Power up drive + pull data off as fast as possible.

6) My brother swears by using Linux tools, mounting the drive as read-only.

7) He said he's salvaged many a drive no one else seemed to be able to recover, by the "Ice Bag Method".

If you have many I/O errors in your log, try this + drop a comment with your results.

I dont have time right now to dig thru my case but I did put the drive in the freezer for 2 hours and reconnected it to the usb adapter but Explorer still can't see it.  But Ease can.  Of course they want $70 for that...

then you'll have to pay - or search for other software that do what you want
btw -did you mean easeus ?  that is a well known one, and  70$ is not too much imo.    

but why not connect it to a sata cable/port?  then you don't have an intermediate interface and protocol

I opened up my desktop case and found the data connector for the laptop hdd, but not what would seem to be the power.  But actually the long flat one is probably the power.  I just dont remember anymore

you can always post a picture if unsure  -and FYI - the connectors are foolproof

okay yep I connected it correctly then and nothing showed up in explorer

SSD or spindles?

mechanical

is the drive seen in the bios?

no

then you can't handle it either - that's the first hurdle it has to take for being accessable

I will close this soon

options left :
you can try it on another pc or port
you can update your bios
if connected with cable replace the cable

Unfortunately nothing worked.

did you test all options?  or do you think you tried them ?
no more info  came out?

Correct

it was not seen in the bios of another pc?  then you need to use a paid option for soft or hard recovery if the data is needed  , like http://www.gillware.com/

I stopped trying and gave the computer back to the owner

Anyone know how I should close this?