Help with Barracuda 7200.7

[nitz]

Well, since I'm a lucky guy I had a documents folder with really important stuff in it... It was in my laptop`s hd which crashed recently and I had a replacement from HP, luckly enough I had a copy in my external HD... But.. Have I told you how lucky I am? My car got stolen and my HDD went away with it! Now the only chance I have to recover my files are from an older HD I have that also crashed LOONG ago and I've never got to know what really happened.

It's a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40GB ATA HDD(ST340014A). The problem first appeared when booting up the computer, it was a Asus A7V8X-X with an Athlon 2200+ (Wow, that was very fast for 6 years ago hehe), it would take long to boot up and rarely would not recognize the HD anymore. I first thought about the IDE cables but it was so rare and I never paid too much attention until the problem got worse and it suddently caused the computer to crash with freezing the Windows or making the mouse cursor get sticky on the screen and then disappearing randomly from "My Computer". No weird noise, nothing! It spins just fine but the BIOS no longer recognizes the HDD.

Any thoughts? Any hope to recover my precious data?

Thank you.

[prodata]

without terminal Level it is hard to know exactly what is the problem... But If it is Not detected in BIOS.. I think it must be F Level Problem... this is head issued and of course not Good to be your First Project in DR... ALL u need is send it to PRO

thanks