Any chance of recovering data from a possibly fried drive?

I have probably fried this external drive. I don't hear the drive head spinning at all when I plug it in anymore. It does not show up under /dev nor does it show up with the
cat /proc/partitions
command. Is there any way to use testdisk/photorec etc on a drive which is not recognized in any way ? Can I force it to be recognized somehow?
The drive is fat32 formatted and contained all my backups of movies/music/pics/videos etc. They were mostly backups so I am not too worried about the data itself since I have 2 other backups as well. But I was wondering if I could still salvage the drive even with lower capacity than its original 500GB.
If not, maybe I have to find a way to salvage the case so I can put in another internal drive I have lying around.

Good call on having me check the drive on the internal bus Eric.
My SFF case didn't have an additional SATA power or even a Legacy power to support 2 drives . So I had to unplug the main drive and attach this one. However the BIOS Setup recognized the 500 GB drive, so I am assuming that the drive itself is good. I now need to get an ATX case so that I can use all my internal drives lying around. I have 3 additional drives just lying around.

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