often drives that seem dead will come back if you use the disk formatter to put the driver back on the drive, you can do this without a complete reformat and not lose your data. i've had to do this a couple of times over the years. if nothing else, try formatting it. if that fails, pull the drive out of the case and try it plugged into an ata port to see if the drive or the converter in the external box is the problem. of course it could also be a cable or connector problem.
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