A colleague of mine has a laptop where the disk seems to have stopped working - at startup it says no disk found. I'm going to try accessing it with an external harness, just in case there's something wrong with the controller type bits in the laptop, but I suspect it won't play ball.
My question is are there people who might be able to repair the disk? In case the motor itself has failed, for example. And if not, what sort of cost is it likely to be to attempt to recover it? I apprecite that if the heads have crashed it may be impossible anyway.
And no he hasn't got a backup
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.