My PC crashed yesterday and leaving 3 hard drives DOA. Aint bothered with the 40gig IDE boot drive...but have 2 maxtor maxlineII 250gig sata's that have like 1 years worth of work and all my personal photo;s of my children and grand children....that i canot replace...Iv checked the PSU and thats fine...Iv checked all the power cables and all ok...hot swapped both drives into a sata caddy that is working with a samsung 500 gig sata drive and both wont spin up....iv tried the inertia method on the drives...and can hear a whiring sound so im guessing the platters r free to move...But just cant power them up to recover my data from them....
Other than getting a recovery dealer at $$$$$$$,
ANY help and advice would be so greatfully apreciated.

Welcome to the forum

Any chance you can try them in a completely different PC, rather than just a caddy? It's a long shot though, they do sound dead to me (unless another member can come up with something ).

Maybe a data recovery place is the best option.

What happened to take out 3 HDDs and leave everything else intact?

wasent just the hard drives....mother board,cpu shot tooall i was left with was the ram them things are replacable....the photoes on dead drive aint....realy dont wana spend mega bucks on data recovery service....iv tried them in the new system i built today and still no joy....