Need help. HDD Failed

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Published on 2010-05-13T13:08:59Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 13:14 UTC
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i have a seagate 3.5" 500GB SATA2 HDD that i put in a USB case (vantec) that failed recently.

symptoms:

at first, it started except that attempts made to browse certain folders resulted in "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)".
then when i tried restarting the hdd, then i got a RAW partition, and windows 7 said i need to format it.
i also tried using a desktop to connect to the HDD directly using SATA, windows 7 stuck at "starting windows" for abt half hour b4 i gave up on it. in the BIOS, it seems to detect the HDD model correctly, something like STA3500xxx something like that
i also tried using TestDisk as suggested by jaclaz on MSFN and it did not find any partitions

what could i do now?

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