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Message:: [QUOTE="miedbe7, post: 2216703, member: 33919"]Get an external hard drive mount for your 2.5"/3.5" drive.  Connect via USB mass storage.  Hopefully the file table and important sectors are still there.  I had to do this about 5 or 6 years ago and was able to run a linux file system from a boot cd (<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwi8pr3M-LPHAhUD1IAKHYl3CuI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimatebootcd.com%2F&ei=yNTTVbyiGoOogwSJ76mQDg&usg=AFQjCNGXFsEb1DhrlxVrZRfWLJ8qogmOdg&sig2=pPDXmfdqgweuikl1cuN5ow&bvm=bv.99804247,d.eXY" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QFjAAahUKEwi8pr3M-LPHAhUD1IAKHYl3CuI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ultimatebootcd.com%2F&ei=yNTTVbyiGoOogwSJ76mQDg&usg=AFQjCNGXFsEb1DhrlxVrZRfWLJ8qogmOdg&sig2=pPDXmfdqgweuikl1cuN5ow&bvm=bv.99804247,d.eXY" rel="nofollow">Ultimate Boot CD</a>) and recovered about 75% of my data (music, photos, research papers, etc).  If your computer is still bootable, goes to BIOS, try using the Boot CD to read the data and copy to your external hard drive.   There are a couple of options either way, assuming the platters on the HD aren't fried.  Good luck![/QUOTE]