Hardrive Recovery

I was wondering if there was anything I could do to recover my dead hard drive(Quantum Bigfoot 12 GB). It still spins and has power but it doesn’t register any hardrive in the cmos or boot up. I try using fdisk to recover the partition table but it didn’t work. So I gave up on it and bought a new one but would still like try and get it working again. Any suggestion youcould give will be appreciated.