Try other usb port, or other computer and see whether the hdd is detected. If still not, try to go to device manager ( http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000833.htm ), and then assign a drive letter to the hdd. After that, try to access it from Computer, if not able to access it, format it (use quick format) and then use this data recovery program to recover your files.
http://www.asoftech.com/adr/
If it can be detected by your computer and shows up as a drive letter in my computer,you can recover data from hard drive with 3rd party data recovery program.Tenorshare data recovery is a professional data recovery program that can recover data after deeply scanning your hard drive to look for lost data due to drives crash, physical damage,system sabotage, virus attack etc.Download it and scan your external hard drive for free to preview whether your files can be recovered.You can get it here: http://www.any-data-recovery.com/product/datarecoveryprofessional.htm After you recover your data,you can format it to check out whether it can be fixed.
Is this hard drive still recognized by your computer? If it is, you can plunge it to your computer and take chances with an external hard drive data recovery freeware to restore all your stored data back for free:
http://freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/external-drive-data-recovery.html
In fact, this data recovery freeware helped a lot as the drive of my friend was mistakenly formatted. All his stored data was lost. But, this data recovery freeware finally restored all his wanted data back successfully.
So, if you are interested, you can download it here:
http://www.freeware-fix.blogspot.com/2013/03/external-hard-drive-recover.html
Note: You'd better learn a lesson to save all important data at least on two hard drives in case of similar data recovery problems in the future.
Try this method
Uninstall the hard disk
Connect it to the other system/laptop as external drive
Install data recovery software on system/laptop
Scan the drive for recovery options available
Save the data you want to recover
You can download a good data recovery software from http://www.windowsdatarecovery.com/
To attempt recovery put it an an open external enclosure and have another one hooked up to recover the data to.
Gently tap the hard drive with an open hand and see if you can get it to spin up one last time.
Of course it can be sent to a data recovey company if you really have to get the data off.
Downloads to Recover Your Files and Save Your Bacon and 10 Best Free Hard Drive Utilities.
Some addition links found on Google
http://www.datarecoveryreview.net/
There are no user serviceable parts inside the drive.
Opening it will just negate any chance of recovery.
You're not going to fix it by disassembling the drive.
The click's and beeps indicate the drive it damaged; there is a good chance (98%) that you have lost all of your data.
Note: By removing the cover from this drive the any remaining warranty will be void and all data will be considered lost.
Now if you still want to take it apart just to look inside, there will be one or two screws that are under the manufacturer's label that will have to be removed.
Pressing firmly, run you finger across the top of the drive until you can feel the depression where the screw head is.
Using you screw driver puncture the label and remove the screw.
Then you can pry the top cover off.
hope this helps
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