External HDD Failure

Hello everyone,

Just recently my External HDD suddenly stopped operating. I came into the Computer room turned on everything and suddenly my External did not show up on my computer. At first I thought maybe it was the External case damaged so I installed the Hard Drive itself into my computer and the same thing happens.

I checked the hard drive under Disk Management, Computer Management, and also tried to add new hardware and it doesn't show nor nothing to add. I also sent it to Seagate (since Seagate bought Maxtor) and they wanted to do a recovery for me for $1600 and honestly I do not have that much money to spend but I have a lot of business reports and files in that external.

Is there anything I could do or even try to recover it myself...

Information:
Media : Maxtor One Touch IEEE 1394 SBPS
Serial#: Y45JL1PE

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by packrat

When you said this:

"I installed the Hard Drive itself into my computer and the same thing happens."

did you mean that you took it out of the enclosure, and plugged it straight into your computer like a normal internal hard drive?

Yes that is exactly what I meant...sorry for the harsh grammar...its just an aggravating situation.

Originally Posted by packrat

If not, can you do this without voiding any warranties or destroying anything?
Also, does your computer at least identify that there is a device plugged into the 1394 port?

I believe it does void warranty but like I said I already previously I gave it a shot and its gonna cost me $1600 that I cannot spare like that...

The link here is a pic of my Device manager with hopefully everything that you would need to look at...

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e89/Kloak/Manager.jpg

Thanx for all the troubles and hopefully we can solve this or at least suck my information out

There's nowhere I can't reach.

yes its current...just took it when u asked me

Just finished checking and it takes forever for the disk management to load and I'm guessing its because of the hard drive...it never took this long to load Disk Management...but anyways now that it finished loading I see the following:

HP_Pavillion (C Parition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)
HP_Recovery Partition Basic FAT32 HEalthy (EISA Configuration)
New Volume (D Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
DOOM3 (F Partitioin Baisc CDFS Healthy

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HP_Pavillion (C Parition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)
HP_Recovery Partition Basic FAT32 HEalthy (EISA Configuration)
New Volume (D Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
DOOM3 (F Partitioin Baisc CDFS Healthy

nothing else

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Format would format everything right...then how would the files be recovered...I'm afraid if i format its the end of all my documents...

How ya doing, buddy?

ok so plug it in...do a quick format and use Active@ program?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm scared...lol...but why should it matter...if this doesn't work I lost all my data anyways right

FELIPE NO

Ook I finally did the procedure and everything turned out excellent...I was able to retrieve all of my important data and after that I reformatted the HDD and now able to use it as one...

Thanx so much

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?