Computer Issues

[ImElkay]

Hey guys. I am fixing a computer for a lady and I have come to the conclusion that the harddrive is damaged?  It shows that it is trying to boot Windows XP, but then it just goes back to the startup screen thing (don't know what it's called, where you can get into the BIOS). Another IDE (hers is SATA) HDD worked so I know it is not any of the other components.  She really wants the pictures off the drive though.  I plugged the drive in question into my personal PC and Windows took forever to boot (even though I made sure to keep the boot drive as my SSD) and then when it finally booted, Windows didn't even show that another drive was connected (but the BIOS did?). I am new to the whole fixing PC's thing so I apologize if these questions are dumb and stuff I should have known. Any help would be awesome.  Thanks guys!

[scaryjam823]

Just connect the drive using an external enclosure to your computer and copy the information and files off she wants. Unless you already tried this, was kinda hard to understand your post. Leave your computer on and connect the external drive via usb and if it registers then you can get data off, if it doesn't then the drive is probably done for aside from getting a very expensive hard drive recovery service.