Hard drive failure, possible to get data?

[Longwang]

So my hard drive is physically dieing, says the guy from geek squad. And it wouldnt boot into my os anymore. So under warranty they replaced, and i lost all my data. I have the old hard drive and im connecting it into the computer as a local disk but it wont appear under the hard disk drives. I did the install new hardware and it appeared that one time, but the computer froze when i tried to open it and now it wont appear anymore. I was just wondering is there any way at all for me to get my data. Geek squad said they would do it for me for $99 but i dont have that much information to take. Just a few things that wont even take up 50mb, but they charge for 2gb only. =/

 

[raybay]

Only if the drive still spins.

 

[Longwang]

it still spins, it just wont show up in the my computer.

 

[Daveskater]

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With regards to your problem, sounds like the drive is dead to me.

 

[Tedster]

Look in the back of computer magazines. There are many professional data recovery services.

Lesson learned: ALWAYS backup.