Help me….my hard disk is damaged!!!

[loria8648]

Hi everyone , I am employed as a manager in a firm. I have a problem that I had like to talk about. My system was working fine the other day, but while copying a file by nero….the system hanged and I had to restart it. But I got a disk boot failure error. Then , I tried to run a windows xp installation CD, but that is also showing some error message during installation and the installation fails.I did check the bios settings and the disk fails to show…and had it checked on another system also…but bios cannot detect the hard disk.I think the disk is damaged or something like that.The disk has important data from my company’s point of view…..that I need to recover.
Please let me know if there are any ways to get my data back from this disk!!!!

[ApPy10]

are you sure that it is properly connected to the hdd cable?
do you hear any clicking noise from the hard drive?

[FReakMaster]

No hard disk found ?

[solvent]

Try these methods:
1. See the Molex connector or 15 pin SATA power connector of the Hard disk is fine or not, or else change the power connector.

2. Also check the PATA or SATA controllers.

2. Remove the Hard Disk and connect that into an another system and check the BIOS settings whether it is detecting or not.

If it still not won't work then u have to go to service center where specialists available to recover the data from damaged or failed Hard disk. But it is very expensive.