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Have you tried a different usb cable?

Sounds like a bad cable, sata port or a power issue.

The first thing you need to do is immediately stop using that computer. Every bit of data that is written to it is likely destroying the data you want to recover. After you've done that use another computer to find data recovery software that boots from a cd. Booting from a cd will keep it...

Be super careful following these instructions. You can muck up a lot in command line. On the Mac do this Go to Applications/Utilities and open Terminal In the Terminal command line type: diskutil list and hit enter Note the disk number of the drive that you cannot access, it will look like...

I don't have Windows8 installed or a disc handy. Try installing and running this software http://www.paragon-software.com/home/pm-express/ it looks pretty straight-forward

If you're trying it on a desktop, be sure you're using the ports on the back of the PC.

Try booting to your Windows 8 disc and using it to format the partition. Otherwise you can try something like PartitionMagic to help.

From my understanding the .14 is just going to be the newest model with any improved mechanics and firmware.

It depends on how important the data is to you. If it is critical, send it to a data recovery lab that doesn't charge for evaluations and will provide you with a list of files that they can recover before charging you anything. If the data is not critical try any of the recommended data recovery...

Make sure that the account you're logged in as is an administator

It looks like the first box in your screenshot represents the entire C:/ not just a folder.

Use a Variety of Drive Manufacturers Use drives from various manufacturers. This is getting harder as the hard drive manufacturers continue to consolidate. If you can’t get different manufacturers, at the very least pick drives with significantly different manufacturing dates, I’d recommend at...

As Wolfshadow said, it's pretty commonplace to use an SSD for programs and OS now and a larger HDD for storage of large files. I would not recommend backing up your files to an SSD. The technology is too new and if that SSD fails it can be very expensive to recover the data vs. an HDD. You...

Go into Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and make sure that the larger drive is not flagged as Boot or Primary Parition. It looks like that drive is a SATA drive so it shouldn't have jumpers. If it's not SATA, it could be that the jumpers...