ameratsu on 20 March 2010
Unless you or Sony can get your particular ps3 working again, you cannot recover your data.
The HD you took out of your 40gb ps3 will have to be formatted before it can be used in another ps3. Unless you actually used the backup utility or copied your save files to an external drive while your ps3 worked, all your data is probably gone.
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