Okay, I used the freezer trick along with a usb adapter and got my computer to acknowledge my hard drive, but it kept saying it needed to be formatted. (files listed as RAW)

I checked around on line for solutions and tried chkdsk, then fixmbr and then fixboot. After I did the fixboot the files are listed as FAT but when I go to diskmanage it tells me that the hard drive only has 10gbs on it. (at top, still shows 33gb at bottom listing)

I tried a data recovery program(testdisk) and got errors like incorrect # of heads and incorrect # of sectors. Tried recovery with the testdisk program and it said harddrive seemed to be the wrong size and check bios, jumpers etc...

Is there still a chance I can recover data off this drive? Am I going about it the completely wrong way or am I just spinning my wheels here and should give it up for dead?   

I can't afford to spend any money on this really by sending it out for data recovery or buying expensive software as the data is only valuable on a personal level, but if there's anything else I can do, I'm willing to try. 

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