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Originally Posted by davis449
Try taking it apart again (the casing around the actual HDD as you have already done) and hooking it into the computer itself (i.e. with power and SATA cable INSIDE the computer) and see if the BIOS finds it so you can be sure it's not just the external's USB electronics that are fucked. If the BIOS finds it, continue boot to OS, offload to another drive, and get rid of the external's HDD and other parts for good (never trust it again).
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This above or if all that you have is a laptop, you may want to buy a kit like that:
http://www.amazon.com/Drive-Adapter-...65WRK7A228FCS3
to connect your bare drive to your laptop.
Once you plug in the drive, check your computer manager to see if the disk is at least recognized. Once you'll find a setup that works and your computer see the drive (not necessarily formatted), you would try recovery software. I was successful with recovery software that came with my flash drive, but there are other types available:
http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywi...y-software.htm
Good luck!