There are 2 options, so it's quite simple:
1. It's only the electronics in the enclosure that are damaged. Then take the drive out and put it in another enclosure.
2. If #1 doesn't work, it's the drive itself that's damaged. Then contact a data recovery company like drivesavers.com or krollontrack.com and let them do what they are specialised in. Probably it will cost a 4-digit amount (in US dollars).
Let me ask: where is your backup? It's well known an external drive is a quite unreliable place to store your only copy of important files on. Of course, it's not a good idea to only use an internal disk also, so even then having one or two backup copies is necessary. But with an external disk it's even more necessary.
With 1 TB external disk being $60, backup on one device costs $0.06 per GB. That's rather cheap for quite a lot of important files.
Kees
Hi there i am hoping someone can help with my problem. External hard drive issue. I dropped it accidentally and it did work after that for a few hours but im suspecting the problems are because of that.
Its a HP Desktop HD BD07.
Drivers have been uninstalled and re-installed.
Shows up in devices under a different name than usual.
Shows up in disk management as 'Unknown' and 'Not Initialized'
If possible i would like a solution that doesn't involve wiping the whole drive. the files on there are important.
I also tried using a partition wizard but the drive would not show up.
Any help is appreciated thankyou.

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