External hard drive failed

[Feeture Feature]

Christmas grinch visited me. Day after Christmas my computer failed to recognize my external hard drive (Western Digital). Code for error indicates drive will not start. I had been saving all my clips from DVDs and downloads from Internet to the hard drive to save space on main hard drive. And for easy portability to another computer. Good idea but not good in practice. Tried a few things but have not gotten to another computer yet to see if drive would work there. My hunch is that drive is fried. And unless I find some method for recovering the files, my collection is gone except for the stuff I have on VHS. And I do have the DVDs I purchased but none of the hundreds I rented from Netflix! Probably 100 or 200 clips from Internet have been lost as well. Oh, well, I never would have had time to screen all the clips again anyway. And I did see them at least once. Still have thousands of clips.

[nyllover]

There is still hope Feeture. Perhaps the drive will work on another computer. I can't belive it cannot be repaired, really! Let's hope!

[legloverjj]

Good Luck!! I hope that you get it to work!!!