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Ext HD power surge, CPU can't find it please help to backup data!
Hi all of those willing to help a Gen X non CPU literate chap in need :),
I lent my ext HD to my brother and he told me that he had a power surge. I plugged my ext HD into my CPU and now it doesn't show up in drives list or anywhere that I have tried to locate it. I tried in device manager under scan for hardware changes for disk drives but I have had no such luck. I tried putting it in a zip lock bag in the freezer for a few hours and then plugged it back in but I have no budump sound and no hardware is found! I downloaded Migo Digital rescue 4 premium and the advertisement stated that i should be able to recognise an unrecognisable HD but it cannot unfortunately! please help. I have over 1.2 TB of data on a WD external 2TB HD that i need to recover. I am running windows 7 on a GE620 MSI laptop and the power surge happened on a Dell inspiron old school pentium 2.