I Know My Data Is There But Cant Recover

[jftm]

HI ALL,

MY HD IS BRICKED, WHEN WINDOWS XP IS STARTING (THE LOGO AND THE LOADING BARS MOVING IN THE BOTOM) A BLUE SCREEN APPEARS 2 SECS THEN IT REBOTS AND ALL OVER AGAIN.

TRYED TO ATTACH TO OTHER PC BUT AFTER WINDOWS STARTING SCREEN IT GOES BLACK AND READING HD LED KEEPS STEADY IVE LESFTED ABOUT 5 MIN AND NOTHING, HARD RESET HERE.

IVE USED UBCD4WIN TO TRY RECOVERING BUT WONT RECOGNIZE DRIVE, AFTER TRYING ALL UTILITIES I CANT GET MY DATA. (ALSO LONG TIME WHEN ACCESISNG ANY PROGRAM AS ITLL TRY TO READ FROM DAMGED DRIVE)

LAST THING I USED TESTDISK WWW.CGSECURITY***** AND FOR THE FIRST TIME I SAW MY DATA THERE (NAVIGATING TROUGH FOLDERS AND FILES IT SEEMS THEY ARE ALL THERE). IVE RESTORED THE MBR, PARTITION TABLE, AND ALL I COULD SEE THERE BUT STILL SAME ERRORS.

HOW THE HELL I CAN GET MY DATA BACK???

PLEASE HELP IM DESPERATED!!!

THANKS IN ADVANCE TO ALL!!

[GDH]

When you connect it as a secondary drive, did you try via IDE or USB? Try the other and see if it makes a difference. Or try running Windows and then once booted up connect via USB.

You need to Recover My Files to be able to see the physical disk connected to the PC.