Hard disk failure, data recovery

[rosemeadoil]

I must have zapped my hard disk when setting up a slave. The disk won't register on the auto detect feature. It comes up 00 00 00 00 00.. I put the one I was going to use as a slave in it's place and it's fine. I've also retried it again a couple of times, in case it was a temporary problem. I don't seem to have any manual setup feature on my bios, so I can't set it up manually.
I'm particularly interested in recovering the data files off it. Does anyone have any suggestions?