USB Harddrive dead?
I have been using this hard drive with Hardy for a while. It has all my music + hmwk + other necessities. Now, it stopped showing up on the desktop, and in nautilus. I see "USB device" but when i try and open it, it says it cant mount it. I booted into XP, and it couldn't see it there either.
I installed Gparted, to see if there's an error with the partition. Gparted sees the drive "/dev/sdb", but instead of showing an ntfs partiton, it tells me that the 27.97 GB of space on the drive is unallocated.
The hard drive spins, and the LED blinks sometimes.
I did drop it a week ago, but it worked perfectly up until yesterday.
1: Is it even possible for a partition to be erased out of the blue.
2: Is there any way to restore it/ any info on it?
3: How can this be prevented?
4: I miss my music, and i want it back.
Any help at all would be appreciated.
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