MP0402H won't work at all. It crashed while recording.My notebook battery went flat while it was recording. Tried many ways to make it work including using a remote sata driver. An alleged friend in the USA tried to recover data onto another HD but when I recieved it it was a dud as well. T cannot locate another HD to match the one I've got to change the PC. Any suggestions?

SOURCE: My PC don't recognize HD Samsung Sata II 250gb

If you mean the drivers for your SATA harddisk, you should have gotten a CD with your motherboard that contains drivers they might be labeled as RAID, sata, or EIDE controller. when you click that it should prompt you for a floppy disk to put the drivers on, you need to put a floppy disk in drive A and then extract the RAID drivers to your floppy, when installing windows press F6 at the begining of the installation and it will act like it didn't work for a minute and then it will pop up asking you something, you press S and then you will be asked to insert your floppy disk. It might ask you if you want to install the x86 or x64 drivers, x86 is 32bit and x64 is 64 bit, if you don't know which you are using it should tell you somewhere on your windows disk. another option is to get a sata controller that isn't part of your motherboard, it would be a pci-e card and it would come with drivers. I don't know where you could download your drivers from because I think the driver you need is specific to the type of SATA controller your motherboard has in it, but I do know that seagate and western digital have sata drivers available as well for their harddrives so I don't know what to tell you. best shot is your motherboard driver CD.

SOURCE: The Samsung HM160HC 160 GB

The disk-drive has malfunctioned.

Search online for a professional "data recovery service".
For a significant fee, they can repair your disk-drive,
just long-enough to copy your files to a new disk-drive.

Otherwise, you have already tried all the 'Do-It-Yourself' options.