Recently, My laptop hard drive failed fro no reason. Three days before, i started noticing that my laptop started to boot very slowly. It took almost 10 minutes to open the desktop and even so, I saw performance penalty. I restarted, but it did'nt help. As days passed by, it took even longer and now (at present) it won't boot. just blank.
AT that time, i could'nt say what was wrong but as i googled my problem, i came to the very conclusion that my hard drive was failing. Unfortunately, i could'nt save any of my datas.
Well, my real question is, IS IT POSSIBLE TO RECOVER DATAS FROM MY FAILED DRIVE. If so... How can i do it, and what is the procedure.
Recently I read on a magazine that the datas can even be recovered from Hd's which have been dipped into the water and kept for a week. But thats not my case...

just concluding it....

and comforting myself...
Please Help!!!