I have a hard drive that is connected to my computer externally through USB. When I moved my computer, the hard drive, while in its enclosure dropped about a foot and a half to the floor so this may have something to do with its problem. I can no longer access the hard drive. Once the problem first started I was able to view the contents, however it would take about five minutes for the files to come up in “my computer”. Now all of a sudden while the hard drive is connected and computer is on I cannot see the files at all and Windows XP doesn’t make any notice of the hard drive. So I took the hard drive out of its enclosure and connected it to my computer using the normal connection. However, this time the hard drive made an unusual noise and the computer was frozen and did not get past the bios loading screen. I connected the hard drive with the correct jumper settings so this isn’t the problem. Does this mean the hard drive is completely done or is there something I can do?
