While you can try putting the drive in some desktop or another case, if that fails you have to talk to folk like http://www.drivesavers.com
Bob
I've got a Western Digital 320GB Passport and recently my sister dropped it on the floor, I then plugged it in - It appears to start working as normal, then a unusual noise comes out of the hard drive, the computer detects the device in the device manager but not in My Computer -
I've recorded a audio clip of the noise it makes so here's a link to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIZexPB9fMU
I know you obviously can't see the hard drive, but I know there's only so many types of noises an external hard drive can make, therefore if any one else has experienced this, please let me know ![]()
Or even if you haven't and you have an idea what's wrong with the hard drive
Many thanks - Jack ![]()

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