That depends on what's broken. All you can do yourself:
- get the drive out and put it in again (works if it's a loose connection)
- get the drive out and connect it via a powered USB to SATA/IDE cable (works if the enclosure is broken)
If none of the 2 work, it's time find a professional data recovery company, because they will have to take the drive apart to salvage your data.
I hope you're lucky enough that somebody told you that external hard drives aren't storage. So you don't lose any data if you can't afford data recovery and just buy a new drive, because you have a backup copy somewhere else.
Kees
I have had this iomega 500gb external hardrive for about 11 months and it has been working fine, until two days before it was fell down from 1 feet. After that my computer cant find the hard drive now. There is a blue light indicating that the hard drive has power running to it (it has a separate power source to the computer) but there is no blinking light which usually comes on when the computer is reading it. I have made sure all the cables are in properly but the hard drive can't be found in either my computer or device manager. I tried the hard drive on another computer but same problem.
How to recover the data and make the drive in operating condition.?
I'm using windows XP SP3

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