Horrible news,,,,
I found out that this hard drive is a bit dodgy SATA. As seen on a label on a drive (inside a case), it is SATA, but a physical data socket is not SATA. That is, none of docks and new enclosures can connect this hard drive. Rather this black enclosure is not really an enclosure , just a plastic case as seen in another photo. I went to a few computers stores with an intention of grabbing either dock or new enclosure, even a store that is specialized in hard drives responded to me that he has never seen this socket or a cable that can fit it (well maybe a guy there was useless,,,, a random cable that was plug into his PC was the one he was after,,,)
Good news is that another shop is offering me that a data recovery service at S$180 (US$130) whereas another big data recovering company S$1000+ (you also mentioned US/S$ 2000) But you know, this 180 guy can do, some data 180 but rest 1,800 after he "kidnaps" my drive and finds he can recover all of them. How could you be certain that he wont do it? Also I have another concern, what if he screws up and erase/ ruin all data. well, even 1000bucks company can do it "accidentally", cannot they?
What would you do? Any advice would be really appreciated again. By the way you are Julio and I had also sent you a message through a different thread? ciao. Mac Bauer