Pavilion dv4405nr laptop hard drive and recovery

Hi,
My daughter's Pavilion dv4405nr laptop's HDD (Samsung MP0804H Spinpoint M Series 80GB) is dead. It doesn't boot, and BOIS HDD test gives error 7. I took the HDD out, and connected it to several PCs (home, work) using two HDD universal adapters (like a BYTECC, and a NewTech) I left it spinning for about 6 hours. The PC sees the mass storage device, but it never shows up in MyComputer with a letter assigned. By right-clicking the working HDD and checking its properties, it lists all HDDs and I can see the damaged one listed w/o a letter assigned. I click to load volume information but all displays zeroes. I downloaded a Seagate-Samung utility to test the drive, and got the same error I had gotten with the laptop's BIOS utility.
Can this HDD be recovered? Is there a utility that can recover it?
If the answer is no: I connected the HDD back into the laptop, and set the boot sequence to DVD drive. I inserted the "All-In-One Recovery DVDs" for this laptop, but they didn't boot. Aren't the recovery DVDs bootable?
Your help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Richard

It looks like this unit came with Windows XP. It really depends on when in XP's production cycle the unit was released on how recovery works.
I am afraid the HDD is beyond salavaging at this point and the hard drive will need to be replaced. The recovery more than likely will fail on the bad HDD.
Early units came with recovery disks, one of which was labeled Operating System, and some used the F10 recovery and required making the recovery disks using a program (these units did not come with disks).
Is there a disk labeled as Operating System or Disk 1 of X?
If it is Disk 1 of X, then you would start with it, but start with Operating System if there is one labeled that.
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