hdd Hardrive failure, Probably? Pls help

[deptster]

This is my first time here so I don't know what tags and stuff mean but pls help..

I will get straight to the point

Laptop model no is "Lenovo G560" ~ very old model

has - 4 gigs of ram
       - 500 gigs HITACHI 5400rpm HDD
       - i3 1st gen (don't know what it is)

problem is that Ubuntu 18.04 LTS was installed on it and initially it was dual booted and has windows 7 but windows 7's startup seems to have corrupted a short while after Ubuntu was installed, doesn't try to fix it and switched to ubuntu cause I just wanted to backup data

Then windows 7 was installed on it again (seems to be working fine) 
Ubuntu was not booting up
Tried this (https://askubuntu.com/questions/716105/just-removed-system-reserved-drive-cant-boot-into-ubuntu-14-04-anymore) solution 
and now the laptop is stuck on the boot logo
Tried swapping in and out everything, definitely -not a battery issue
                                                                            -not a power issue
It is a hard drive issue
Whenever harddrive goes in it will stick on boot logo
Swapped out hard drive 
Copied ubuntu on Pendrive 
Successfully booted live ubuntu

Can my hard drive be fixed? I need that data

 

[AntiTrust]

13 minutes ago, deptster said:

 

 

if its just a 2.5 inch sata hard drive, you could get a sata-usb cord and plug it in externally then should be able to read the drive on your laptop and pull off files

[deptster]

How can plugging externally solve the problem?

Should I get one of those hardrive docks? ~they are expensive though

 

[Radium_Angel]

23 minutes ago, deptster said:

data

If you were dual booting, it's possible the Grub installer got overwritten when Win7 needed to be repaired. 

Easiest way to recover data is boot using a LiveCd/LiveUSB, hop into the Ubuntu 18.04 and copy data off to the USB stick.

Then wipe the whole thing and go with a single OS.

[deptster]

 

2 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

 Easiest way to recover data is boot using a LiveCd/LiveUSB, hop into the Ubuntu 18.04 and copy data off to the USB stick.

 

Umm actually I tried that stuff but every time I insert hardrive, lappy is stuck on boot logo

Tried hot-swapping HDD but it doesn't show up in Ubuntu.

[Radium_Angel]

10 minutes ago, deptster said:

 

Umm actually I tried that stuff but every time I insert hardrive, lappy is stuck on boot logo

Tried hot-swapping HDD but it doesn't show up in Ubuntu.

Drive is toast, and the OS is trying to enumerate it and won't boot past that.

Time for data recovery service!

[deptster]

32 minutes ago, AntiTrust said:

sata-usb cord

will try this tomorrow, hope it works 

else 

8 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

Time for data recovery service!

 

[deptster]

Okay so......

Just hooked that HDD up to my desktop and it seems to detect it, pulling data now (probably gonna dump that lappy)

 

Thanks for the help anyways