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Is there a place where I can buy reading heads because I haven't found one yet?
Professionals take matching heads from so called "donor" drives known to be compatible. (They keep many in store from various brands / models to be ready for as many jobs as possible, and for the remainder they must have dedicated providers... or sometimes for rare and old / odd models they resort to asking other companies if by any chance they have one in the depths of their inventories... sometimes it's so rare that the owner has to search a matching unit on eBay or something...)
As has been said above, with your current knowledge level, your current skill set and your current equipment, the chances of a successful recovery are about as good as the chances of a thousand monkeys typing on a thousand keyboards while seating in a sauna set to maximum temperature with no food or water to re-write
Les Misérables before they all die from thirst and exhaustion.
So the owner has to decide if the drive's contents are worth about 600€ to get it done in a specialized data recovery company nearby, or if it is not (which means for instance that pictures collected over a 5 years period are not worth 10€ / month) then start the grieving process and let it go. Or perhaps someone here may propose you a significantly cheaper fee, but then there's the risk of shipping a HDD with unique content abroad. (I had such a proposal once
after requesting a diagnostic on behalf of someone, in a similar situation, the owner decided against it and preferred to save money until she has enough to pay for an advanced recovery service without making a dent in the budget. Because, in its current state, if it's not tampered with any further, the drive's condition should not degrade, it can wait a few months definitely and a few years almost certainly if money is an issue right now. Unless the "stuff on it" is necessary now, for work or studies, in which case she could borrow 100€ from six good friends and repay them later on when she has succeeded in her endeavours...)
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4) Decrypt data (how to do this depends heavily on what tools you have available). Without professionals tools, and since reallymine may not support it, likely you will have to do it manually with the use of a compatible SATA to USB bridge from a compatible My Book model external drive.
Shouldn't work with the original bridge ?
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