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Try connecting the SATA drive as a "slave" drive in some other computer, to see if it works at all.
If not, exercise the warranty and replace it.
Click Start
Right-mouse click "My Computer"
Click "Manage"
Click "Storage"
Click "Disk Management"
If the disk is working, it should appear in "Disk Management" as an "uninitialized" device.
Initialize it.
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Try connecting the external hard drive to another computer to recover/backup your data.
When you have such a large capacity hard drive, it pays to have a second large capacity hard drive to backup your data in the event of the other hard drive dying.Hard drives do fail especially if you accidently drop it.
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Return it if it's still under warranty.
For remote data recovery and do-it-yourself data recovery see http://FreeDataRecovery.us
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