Data Recovery

So my following of the tek convinced me to build my first system and i still follow every video and browse the forum often though never really post.

The issue is my girlfriends laptop refused to do a thing ( Was at the end of its lifespan ) however all her data ( images/videos ) is still on it. the drive is visible when connected to my pc in UEFI but is not to be found either i my computer or even to be allocated. 

Just looking for some suggestions to try to recover the data as it all holds sentimental value to her rather than disregard it all.

Cheers!

what os are you using? sometimes in windows you have to go into disk management and give the drive a letter.

8.1, Can't even find it to do such despite it showing in the UEFI, thanks for replying however!

 

Throw a small linux distro onto a flash drive and boot to that.  You may have better luck accessing her HDD from there, assuming there isn't significant data corruption or mechanical issues.

google bro, found it in 2 seconds

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows-8/a/disk-management-windows-8.htm

Hiren's boot cd has a data recovery tool, if I remember correctly.  You might give that a try.  I'd avoid trying it on windows; windows has a tendency to want to format anything it can't read.

Cheers guys, away from home but will try it and get back to everyone on how it went, cheers!