hi just wanted to ask if there was a way to salvage the data on my external harddisk which crashed... is there another way other then sending it to professionals? I'm not really a hardware sorta person
The best way is to take it to the professionals. I am not quite sure where you live but if you have yellow pages I am sure you will find a number to call to.
Since very few people know how to get the data back it will be best not to try anything without professional help. Or it might get worse.