Revive a drive?

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My 500Gb Samsung hadrive died last week. I am currently wondering if there is a way to revive it, even if just long enough to liquefy any important data. So far I have tried freezing it, and running it on it's side. It neither spins up, nor shows up in the BIOS. Ideas?

there are plenty of recovery programs that allow you to copy the entire partition to a new harddrive.

Yes, but they require the drive to be able to spin up and be recognized by BIOS.

Have you tried it on a different power supply? There's some chance it's just the particular power source.. though admittedly a pretty low chance. Is the drive internal or external?

If it's the drive itself, then there's not much you can do except send it into a data recovery company and have them retrieve the data off of the platters with their specialized equipment and techniques.

I have not tried a different power supply, although that may be the case, as it's a cheap failing power supply. I'll bring it to my mom's house, and try it there. If that works, I can maybe use a Molex/SATA power adapter, since the drive I have in there now is working fine from the molex connectors

Data recovery is not exactly worthwhile for this drive, the data can be redownloaded over a few days, but if the drive can be salvaged, I won't have to keep using an old IDE drive with only 120GB of space.

You can always try the "freezer trick" <-google that for how-to guides

Tapping the drive, etc can sometimes help too.

As I mention in my original post, I tried the freezer trick. I'll try tapping tommorow, when I go to get the drive from my dad's house.

Freezing it, not a good idea. Most HDDs are not made to be in an environment there the temperature is too high or too low.