Can Recuva work in these situtations

I have 2 similar issues on different computers and I was wondering if Recuva would work or if someone could recommend another program

Computer 1

The blue screen came up and now it won't boot. Turns out the motherboard died. Called Compaq and the warranty was up two days ago so they want to charge me $250 for a new motherboard. I put the drive in another computer of the dame make and model but it still won't boot. I was wondering if I could put the drive in a external case and get all my documents and such off it as well as get the data from the Quickbooks accounting program. Can Recuva recover it so it boots up?

Computer 2

Again the blue screen of death. When I try to boot it says there is no operating system.

Thanks

I've experienced what you have on pc 2. Blue screen, "operating system not found". It was a dead hard drive. All data lost and unrecoverable except by expensive forensic retrieval.

My humble guess is that you may have the same issue with pc 1.

if a second p.c. can see the hard drive from situation 1 you should be able to use Recuva on it.

same with situation two (I've got a certain harddrive that works just fine but refuses to boot ever)

(I've got a certain harddrive that works just fine but refuses to boot ever)

How does it work just fine if it refuses to boot ever? :)

How does it work just fine if it refuses to boot ever? :)

:P

Read/Write works ;)