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Okay, I had that fault on this computer and I have had it on two other laptops, so that's why I thought about it.
I hope you find the problem and it's easy to solve. I'm curious of the solution for future hardware troubleshooting.
when you had it disassemble, you didn't see anything that looked burned near the connector or that it smelled like burned electronics?
sad you can't rescue your laptop.
Of Course you can connect your HDD to an other computer.
If you have a desktop pc its only to connect it. In other case you can use a Sata to usb adapter like this
https://www.ebay.com/bhp/usb-3-to-sata-adapter or this https://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/sata-to-usb-3-0
or a HDD docking station like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/UNITEK-USB-...-/122838054273 or this https://www.ebay.com/p/UNITEK-Usb3-0...r=423480715944