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I'm a little hazy on what you have.
If I read correctly, you can boot into Windows with the bad HD disconnected.
I'm not sure why you are getting a "can't find any device" message, unless the bad drive is still remembered in the BIOS setup.
At a guess, the "bad" drive really is bad. So bad that it may not be easy to recover data from it. I'd try putting in in an external USB adapter, although I doubt that will help. I have read of people swapping the drive controller electronics board from an identical drive, but I have never tried that myself.
Best of luck.