there goes my last hope to get my data back

[ratcreature]

I managed to get a decent screwdriver, and got the disk out of its metal frame and connected to another computer, but the desktop doesn't even recognize the thing as a hard disk. I mean, not just that it can't read the file system, but it doesn't recognize what manner of thing hangs onto its USB port. So short of CSI-level data recovery technomagic, which I can't afford, I won't get anything on that disk back. Waaaahh.

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[jt93.livejournal.com]

lol, just caught the earlier post, so never mind.

i have seen some nutso recovers by ppl though. new ide controller chips put on the drive and stuff like that.

[ratcreature]

The data loss is annoying but not so bad that I'd go this far in effort. I mean, there's a bunch of half written posts, my todo list, and some stuff like that, some fanfic I saved that's not online anymore, some old mail, and I'd have liked to have this back, but I miss having a laptop more than the stuff that was on it, so any further money investment will go toward that goal.