Seagate initializing to recover data

[awarner]

Hopefully someone may be able to help me.

I had a Maxtor 500GB one touch storage but stupidly plugged the laptop power supply into it by mistake. As it did not like 19v going through it and Maxtor has no over voltage protection which is stupid in itself.

Anyway I bought a second Seagate Barracuda drive (which is the actual hdd inside) to swap the main board. The hdd now powers up but Vista Disk management shows it as an unknown drive and not initialized.

I have some family photos and private data on the drive so I really need to recover the photos at least before the other half finds out!!

Any ideas on a way to recover the data?

thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[awarner]

Just noticed that vista is not seeing the drive at all but the USB controller the hdd is plugged into.

[BipolarBill]

Initializing will not erase any data, so it's OK to try.

[awarner]

Unfortunately it will not initialize

[BipolarBill]

Too bad.