External hard drive fell and attaching SATA cables didn't help

[Sinnamin]

My speaker wire got loose so I moved my case a bit where I had a Seagate external HD resting on top of the case. As I was reaching for the speaker wire, I accidently hit the EHD usb cable which caused the EHD to fall.

Afterwards, it wasn't recognized by the computer and I tried it on my laptop too just in case.
I opened it up and tried to put it into the computer since I had an extra 3.5 sata cable (power+data) and the bios didn't recognize that the HD was there.

I'm wondering now:
1. Is there anyway I can make it work? Should I get new wires or a new enclosure? Is there something I'm missing?
2. If there's no option to use it again, is there a way to salvage the data because I had nearly 1.5TB full of various things (some personal stuff, game saves, etc.)

 

[CountMike]

Try taking it out of it's case, maybe it has standard SATA connectors. In that case you can connect it straight to PC and check it good.

 

[Sinnamin]

Try taking it out of it's case, maybe it has standard SATA connectors. In that case you can connect it straight to PC and check it good.

Yeah, that's what I was trying to say.

I already tried putting it into my computer with the sata cables

 

[CountMike]

Of it doesn't show in BIOS that means electronics are screwed.

 

[Sinnamin]

Of it doesn't show in BIOS that means electronics are screwed.

Is there anyway I could recover the data?

 

[DSzymborski]

Of it doesn't show in BIOS that means electronics are screwed.

Is there anyway I could recover the data?

If no PC will recognize it and thus, you can't use any software solutions, your last option is to send it out to a data recovery firm. If you go this route, be prepared for a large expense.

The only dependable way to salvage data from a destroyed hard drive is to restore the data from the backups, the making of which is a very basic part of responsible PC management.