Ok so I got a new video card and Power Supply (BTW Logan if you are reading it is 80plus I took your advice). Anyway while I was installing the drivers I still had the PC open. I had to move the hard drive because the power cord to it looked like it might give whilst doing so I shocked my hard drive. It went to the blue screen of death and then shut down. If I try to boot with the hard drive it says that it cannot find it or it has been damaged. It doesn't show up in the bios like my secondary storage hard drive does. I don't want to try the freezer method as I heard it can cause condensation, but I need this fixed as I had a lot of important files on that hard drive. If you know any ways I could get it to work that would be awesome I am also willing to pay up to 200 U.S. dollars to get it repaired by someone.
Did you unplug the HDD while it was running?
Yes, I was trying to set the hard drive in a better spot and I shocked it. It then went to a blue screen, I unplugged it and then re-connected it in a better spot and nothing. Tried all sata ports and 2 cords.
The drive is dead. An option you have to reclaim the files on it if it's still running is use a bootable linux OS off a CD or something and see if you can get into the drive like that.
But I seriously doubt that's going to work.
The drive is dead nothing can be read from it. Does anybody know any cheap places I can have repair it or at least get files off? My max budget would be 225 for this. I have a lot of important files (I had to learn the hard way to back up)
You probably didn't damage the platters, just killed the controller. If you are handy with electronics you could try buying the same make/model drive and swap the platters over but unless you have a very clean room that will be hard. I have had drives recovered from a simular issues for around $150 but I'm not from the USA so don't know the going rate there.
At least you have learnt a valuable lesson, backup your important shit. Thrice
I don't think any dollar at 150 could go over 220 so looks like I am paying for this to get fixed. Thank you!
That's a good point. Or he could just buy a similar drive and replace the board, that could probably work.
http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-a-Dead-Hard-Disk
Some useful stuff here you can try, might save yourself a few bucks.
You could have put the 200 dollars in a 2nd hard drive and run it in raid 1 (or a 3rd with raid 5). You should make backups even with this kind of setup.
Don't be greedy when data safety is involved!
Good luck with the recovery.