It's likely your external drive developed a fault. You could try data recovery software yourself. But the quickest and easiest way I can suggest to recovery your files is an online data recovery service like http://FreeDataRecovery.us
They offer both remote data recovery and do-it-yourself data recovery advice.
SOURCE: Computer doesn't recognize drive anymore
Advice,
Sounds like you are swapping this external drive between two PC's. Why don't you do this! Get it connected to one of your PC's preferrably your desktop. Once you get it connected and it is able to be read and you can read files or acces it! Share it out, under Windows XP you can share out drives, files, printers etc.
Once you do this both PC's can share this device without you having to swap between PC's manually!
I can walk you through this if you need further help, but if this persists, it sounds like your files are corrupt on this drive you may need to reformat the drive.
SOURCE: Ext WD500GB drive not being recognised by my computer,but seen in device manager
try downloading this and and scan may be it might locate yr drive since windows can still see it in device manager. and with these u can recover even deleted and formated files. try it
http://services.seagate.com its trial version so u can get a full version n pay little or find similar software but i know yr drive can still work fine its just that we r missing something here.
thank u
SOURCE: a disk read error has occured press CTRL-ALT-DELETE to restart.
check power chord or port of hard drive if u dont find any prob. pleace re insert power cord with card board packing. definetly u solve the problem.
SOURCE: Simple tech 500gb usb hard drive
Youve damadged the harddrive, is the harddrive spinning or making any noise?
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