Lost files on HDD? Help

[Fluffycakes]

So I had an external hard drive from Seagate that I put the wrong power supply in and burnt up the protection diode. After watching plenty of videos, I took the HDD out of the external hard drive case it was in and checked the diodes/modules like the videos show and turned out the protection one like in the videos was bad. Now it turns on, shows up in disk management but will not let me initialize. I've tried 4 different data recovery programs and nothing seems to recover anything. One said bad sectors on it. One couldn't find any partitions and the other couldn't recover anything. Is all data lost on it after removing the diode? Also, if fixed, can this still be used in th PC as another HDD without the protection diode or should I put another one on there? 

[PhilAstisxh]

This sounds really bad, hope you do not loose any important data, but for me it sounds like you killed that drive...

Maybe you could try a data rescue service?

[Fluffycakes]

11 minutes ago, PhilAstisxh said:

This sounds really bad, hope you do not loose any important data, but for me it sounds like you killed that drive...

Maybe you could try a data rescue service?

It sounds bad but I got it to start working by removing the diode like I saw on some videos. The computer recognizes it but can't access any files on it. I think I just made a backup of my computer on it and a bunch of pictures. I don't want to lose anything on it 

[PhilAstisxh]

I really understand that you dont want to loose anything, I actually lost date a copple of month before, after this, I bougt a Synology NAS, and am not worried about this problem anymore...

[Fluffycakes]

I mean if I lose the stuff I guess it's ok. I just don't remember everything that was on there which is why I want to try and get it working. I'm also trying to find a new HDD for my computer since my 4tb is almost full. Would like to put my operating system and whatever else the computer needs to start and run windows one drive and everything else saves to another but that's another topic

[Kilrah]

If you "really don't want to lose anything" then you send it to a specialized company who knows what they're doing... but $$$.

 

 

[Fluffycakes]

45 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

If you "really don't want to lose anything" then you send it to a specialized company who knows what they're doing... but $$$.

 

 

Yea that's the problem is I don't want to spend to much. If they have money back guarantee meaning I don't have to pay if they can't recover than I might. I have a feeling everything is lost some how since no programs could recover anything