External HDD Failure

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?

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?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, it looks like your Maxtor OneTouch IS installed on your computer. Looking under the "disk drives" section. It may need to be activated, or some random crap like that. Just don't do anything until told to do so.
Is this a current screen shot?

Now, in the left column, click on "Disk Management" and look for a potential third hard drive. Let me know what you see.

Just don't change any settings until told to do so. One wrong step in Disk Managements can mean a HUGE pain in the butt.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

So what do you see in Disk Management???

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Please excuse my impatience. =p
Is New Volume your second hard drive? (looks like you have two WD drives)
If so, and they aren't in a striped RAID configuration, turn off your computer, and plug in the drive as an internal drive. Turn it back on, and let me know if you have a little bit of progress.

You may have to do a quick format just to make the drive practically accessible, and then run a file recovery program.

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

Well, if you use a quick format, all it will do is delete the file tables. It is important that you use quick format, instead of a full format. A full format will go over all the data on the drive, and overwrite it with (I'm assuming) 0s; which is of course not good.
The quick format will make the files conventionally inaccessible. However, there are programs that exist which scan every part of the drive and catalog every file that exists on the drive which hasn't been overwritten.
With such a program however, you will have to offload the rescued data from the drive onto another, usable drive.

Just to add to the list of failed Maxtor drives, I had the exact same problem just last weekend with an internal Maxtor drive which was put in a special enclosure.

I used Active@'s hard drive recovery program.

However, before formatting anything, lets just make sure that it is completely inaccessible from the IDE linkup.

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Yeah, pretty much.
The program isn't all that user friendly though, so read the help files and guide pretty thoroughly. If you have questions about the program, go ahead and ask me.
And make sure you have enough hard drive space on another drive to offload the contents of your external drive.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

There's always the possibility of shelling out $1600 for someone else to use a $30 program for 4 hours tops working on this, with the supposed guarantee that all of your data will be recovered. =P

FELIPE NO