Help - Rescuing a dead laptop drive?

[garycat]

The wife's laptop died yesterday and it appears that it is the hard drive that is dead as there was no response when I put it in the spare caddy on my laptop.

Typically, a backup was never taken so if anyone can suggest a quality USB/SATA adaptor and some free-ish recovery software that could help that would be appreciated as there are some docs and photos on there that we would like to have.

[garycat]

marshalla said:

won't do anything. You can try Photorec and/or Recvua but both need the host computer to be able to find the drive before they can attempt anything.

Yeah :-( the disk didn't appear in the Admin / Storage / Disk Management interface.

[garycat]

Epilogue...

I bought a USB SATA caddy off amazon and amazingly the drive worked in that so I quickly rescued all the stuff that wife thought she had lost.

Should be a BJ at least in it for me after that.