My external drive locked up and now appears blank when I try to access it...anybody know of a good software for recovery or suggested companies for sending this to that might be able to recover the data?

are you using mac or pc? do you know anyone who knows about computers who can take it out the caddy and install it internally to see if it's the drive or caddy/power supply at fault?

unique said:

PC...and we did install it in the PC to see if it would communicate...it didn't...well actually it said it had 160GB of free space and nothing could be written to it...typical....

If it's a mechanical failure, you're pretty much out of luck. If the disks can't spin, nobody will be able to get data off of them without it costing a small fortune. But if it showed up on the PC after the lock up, it may be an intermittent failure. The bearings may be going. Let it cool down and try again in another external case. If it starts working, make sure it stays cool by aiming a fan at it and don't over tax it.

I think I might be able 2 help u recover some hard drive do u need a personal assistant?-----
[Edited 11/2/09 10:12am]

lilJ said:

Come to think of it...

pardonme4livin said:

If u need to ~think about it~

pardonme4livin said:

Get your hands on a Universal Boot Disk.
It does wonders.

Call your IP. That happened to mine and I have Verizon. tehy fixed it right away while I was still on the phone with them!

r ya listening to this
I think they have much better idea's than I could EVER come up with

pardonme4livin said:

well did u find out what is wrong with it! Or should i call the geek squad to come take a look @ it