help! can i recover my data?

[Greg Rundlett (freephile)]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Greg Rundlett
(freephile)<greg-SfI3QVg0eaJl57MIdRCFDg at public.gmane.org> wrote:

[snip]
>
> But, after trying to boot with noapci and other such boot options the
> system still would take over 15 minutes to boot with lots of DRDY
> messages or other ATA errors.  So, I began to realize that the disk
> controller itself must be bad and I bought an external hard drive
> enclosure so that I could mount the disk from a good system.  Checking
> to make sure that I bought the right size enclosure, and the right
> type (SATA v. IDE), I just found out that Enhanced IDE is different
> from IDE.  Time to return the IDE enclosure and wait some more to get
> an EIDE enclosure.
>

Actually, I did not notice that the drive was fitted with a special
adapter for the Dell Inspiron 5100 notebook that it came out of.  That
adapter turns the 40 pins into a two-sided male tab connector like
this: http://www.pchub.com/uph/photos/item/6329187330580300002_HA003.jpg
 Once you remove the adapter, the drive mates with the enclosure I
bought because the pins for the EIDE drive are the same as IDE and
PATA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_ATA

That said, my drive is still not even recognized by sudo fdisk -l or gparted.

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