External hard drive wont get recognized by any computer. I want to recover my data although it wont pop up

[tre_618]

I got my western digital external harddrive 2 moths ago and yesterday my friend dropped it while we are out on a hardwood floor it had to have been about 3inches. not a big fall at all. Now my hard drive isnt recognized even though it it blinking like its work and its noooo Damage at all toward. Please help me. i have tried best buy. western digital , apple and everything. I want to take it to a specialist but its too expensive. is there any software for mac i can download or what can i do.

Yes it was turned on. My friend didn't catch it in time. But its running fine but wont pop up. I just want to recover my Data that is on there so i can get another Harddrive

 

[RealBeast]

Was it turned on when it was dropped? If so the read/write heads may have impacted the platters and damaged the drive.

 

[tre_618]

Was it turned on when it was dropped? If so the read/write heads may have impacted the platters and damaged the drive.

Yes it was turned on. My friend didn't catch it in time. But its running fine but wont pop up. I just want to recover my Data that is on there so i can get another Harddrive

 

[RealBeast]

Does the drive appear in the bios list of connected SATA devices at boot, or in the disk management?

It may not be recoverable due to damage to the platters, but I would try a free data recovery program like Recuva first from HERE.

 

[tre_618]

Does the drive appear in the bios list of connected SATA devices at boot, or in the disk management?

It may not be recoverable due to damage to the platters, but I would try a free data recovery program like Recuva first from HERE.

I have a mac computer. is there any others?

 

[PennyLife]

You might also want to try messing around with the cables. On my old WD external drive, the USB connection stopped working a long time ago and now only the Firewire connection works. In my experience, WD enclosures tend to easily get issues with connectivity if things get shaken up/slightly out of place. So, you can try different connection ports (if you have them) and different cables to try to rule out this type of an issue.