EXTERNAL HDD NOT RECOGNIZING.

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  1. epilogue

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    When I went to plug in my external harddrive today ( comstar 320 gb )
    it said something about a power surge, and now it won't recognize at all.

    is there any way to fix this, or to get the data off the external?
    there are pieces of information in that external that i need.

    Any help is appreciated.

    cheers.
     
    epilogue, Feb 23, 2008
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    moved to correct forum. have you tried the drive in another pc to see if can be read or not? have you tried all your usb ports?
     
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    yes i have =(

    is there any possible way you can think of to retrieve the data?
     
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    take the drive out of the enclosure if not under warranty & connect internally in the pc as a slave.
     
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    sorry, i'm not very good with this kind of stuff...

    would you mind explaining how i would connect it internally?
     
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    closed due to multi-posting
     
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