It "should" be possible to remove the drive from that enclosure, it will void any Iomega warranty though, but you will have to look carefully to see how it is constructed.
If you succeed in opening it up, the drive inside is just a regular 3.5" IDE HD. You will need another enclosure to put it into to attempt data recovery/use.
This drive will work in a USB 2.0 enclosure too.
Question: When you first got these drives, did you reformat them for use with your Mac or did you just leave them in the format that they came from the manufacturer?
Unless the box specifically stated that these drives were formatted for a Mac, then they are still formatted as FAT which is notoriously unstable.
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This Minimax 1 TB hard drive has been working perfectly for months.
It suddenly refused to show on the desktop. It is firewire chained to another Iomega 1 TB drive. I have tried to connect it on its own and to another computer but still would not boot. It starts with the normal booting noise and then goes quiet, not appearing on the desktop. It does not make the dreadful "click-click" noise which I hope is a good sign?
It contains one file "APERTURE LIBRARY" which has over 50,000 photos.
All are already backed-up except the most recent ones dated from 12/11/09.
They are the only ones (some 100 photos) that I actually need to recover (all NEF files).
Can someone tell me if I could just swap the disk from one case to the other (which works well so far) and how easy it would be to do it?
Thanks for your comments as if I could fix it myself, it would be nice.
Cheers

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