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Retrieving Information From A Dead Hard Drive? Inexpensive!!?

Hello, I have a Hp Pavilion tx1320us notebook. On a hot garage sale morning, I left my laptop on the front seat of my moms car and it overheated which caused the hard drive to crash. Now I am on hunt for a data recovery service that is cheap or maybe even a USB or something I could use. Please Help Me!! I have been told to buy the wrong products that don't recieve information a dead hard drive. The hard drive can still be detected, but when you restart the laptop it only brings you to the background color of my desktop and it stays there. If you know anything, please let me know!! Thank you so much!!

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1. You would need another computer and plug in your dead HD. You would then need to download a program (On the other computer) that can recover the files. There are thousands of programs that you can download for free. Or install a new hard drive in you laptop and install your dead HD and then download. ect....
2. Since the drive can be seen by the computer boot to the windows cd and go into the console and use the chkdsk command. this will analyze the partition and try to recover it if its been damaged. You may also want to pull the drive and mount it with a connector to another computer. They make adapters that can attach a laptop drive to the hard drive ports on a desktop. From there you can try to recover the data from the drive. I've had good luck with SpinRite from Gibson Research. It cost around $70.00-$80.00. It boots from a cd. I've recovered many "dead" hard drives this way. In the least it may fix it enough for you to connect it to another computer with an adapter and and mount it as a slave drive to recover the data.