I am research scholor in Astronomy. I have saved my data including important images taken from different telescopes to my Maxtor external hard drive of 1TB capacaty. once it dropped from 3 feet height. now whenever I connect it to my laptop, Laptop identifies it as external storage device long time after connection and shows icon at notification area at right lower corner. however, I can't find drive in "my computer". laptop does not assign "F:" or something else to drive. Will some of you please guide me to recover my improtant data from disk? I will be pleased to forward more information if required...