Attached Link: OnTrack Data Recovery

*"I did all that except seeing if it was spinning up."*

If results were no go, it could be a bad data cable, or the port on the motherboard - you can try another cable and switching to the other port (all my dinosaurs are the old IDE style, I assume SATA has two ports?). The quickest test is probably putting it in another machine if you have access to one. Conceivably, the heads could be stuck. I've read about putting a drive in a ZipLoc bag and putting it in the freezer overnight (cold contracts the metal parts) or tapping it GENTLY with a hammer, also holding it flat and twisting back and forth vigorously. Those are pretty much the last resorts I can think of.

A data recovery service can open the case in a clean room, take the platters out and mount them in a rig if necessary. I'm pretty sure they have a service to give you an estimated cost. Ontrack is one of the better known ones, though possibly not the cheapest. Depends on how much the data is worth to you.

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