[HLUG] external hard drive recovery

[Mark Broadbent]

Hi George,

2008/8/7 dicegeorge at hotmail dot com <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>:
>
> my new 1TB Maxtor external hard drive
> fell off my desk whilst backing up,
> now it whirrs and green lights
> but neither computer nor windows nor ubuntu detect it....

I suggest that whirring is not a good sign!  I suspect that'll be
damaged bearings or the read/write head dragging on the disk.  I
suggest that if the disk cannot be detected at all then the disk is
all but dead and to just give it up.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Thanks
Mark