How to recover data from dead hard drive Seagate medalist 4310 4.3 GB

Start with a big hammer to destroy the data then send/take it to a electronics recovery location.

If the drive can be seen by device manager but not under MyComputer, right click my computer and go to "Manage". (Check out: rightclicking my computer icon on your desktop, select disk manager)
You should see your hard drive either lister as foreign or not initialized. Ifforeign, it will give you an option to import and is not initialized, it willallow you to initialize it.
This will hand over drive management to the OS and you should be able to see itin My Computer.
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That's a desktop hard drive. To use it with a laptop you would need to buy an external hard drive enclosure like this , or an adapter like these . Make sure that it says that it's suitable for ATA, not just SATA, PATA, or IDE.

I am afraid the device is dead. You may be able to recover the data from a professional recovery firm but there is no other way.

Any computer shop can give you an estimate, but it can be fairly expensive, just depends what has to be done to access the disk platters, so make sure you get an estimate first in writing. Good luck!

Right-click My Computer, choose Manage, or otherwise go to Management Tools.
In the left window drill down to Disk Management and select it.
On the right pane find your 4GB disk.
Right-click it, choose Assign drive letter, and choose an unused drive letter from list.
Confirm, and your drive should appear in My Computer under the newly assigned letter.

the seagate hard drive is for a desktop, this will not fit a laptop

Hi sunny_2003,

There are many hard drive pcb supplier such as http://www.hddzone.com/seagate-pcb-c-1.html

Be sure to backup your data.

it depends on the level of crash if windows can still recognise it then u can recover data even though yu have formated it before u can still recover yr data. use the site below to scan n recover all data both formated ones.
http://services.seagate.com mind u this a trial version though it still works.
hope this helps
do give me yr feedback

I am sorry to say this drive toast. if you want to recover the data take it pro.