How to recover or make a (dead) HDD bootable so that I can recover my data?

[dakshak1997]

Guys can you help getting my HDD on track....From my previous PC I had 2 dead HDDs (since they weren't bootable and also wasn't visibe in BIOS). Later I tried to boot those two HDDs on Linux and one of the HDDs worked (or atleast I got to recover my data but it's still unbootable for Windows). However the 2nd HDD didn't even work on Linux.

Is ther any way of getting the other HDD working or atleast recover the data form it.

The dead HDD (that's not working) is : Hitachi 0F10379 250GB

P.S : Both the HDDs failed at the same time and are dont boot on Windows.

Update : Finally I've tried the Freezer method to get my drive working, but not much progress.
I've then tried it to boot the drive on Linux (Fedora) but it wasn't available onto it. So I tried Disks Utility that's present in Linux and there my HDD was listed. Then I assigned NTFS filesystem (since wasn't) and also made it Bootable. But when I connected it on Windows 8 it again started showing BSOD error.
On Linux the HDD is now working and can hold new data (still doesn't show my old data but I guess if I can get it working on Windows I can recover it through some utility).

The HDD is running/working but it makes clicking sound sometimes. Does it have to do something with heads?

So pls help me what next should I do to get that HDD working and the data back.

P.S : Since after assigning it to NTFS on Linux, just to try whether it is working I wrote 2 small files onto it. Will that affect my data recovery?

 

[inerax]

Clicking HDD is a very bad sign. At this point to recover the data you are going to need to send it off. Some places offer data recovery. They open the drive, remove the platters and take the data off. They copy the data to a new drive. You are looking at $100's and that includes the data recovery and a new HDD to put the data on.

 

[Rogue Leader]

DO NOT write any more data to it, because you will be overwriting your old data.

IMO that drive is on borrowed time, can you get yourself some Linux data recovery software and just get what you can off of it? I would say do that as soon as possible don't keep trying to run the drive, as its going to fail in short order (especially when you hear clicking like that).

 

[geofelt]

A HDD does not need to be bootable to read data files on it.
If the hdd is not detected in windows, or the bios, that is another thing.
If the data is valuable, there are data recovery outfits that for a price will recover your files.