USB drive does not turn on

[anpfire]

Hello,
I have a 40 GB USB hard drive. It is a USB 2.0 enclosure (from digital123) with a laptop hard drive. I was accessing information from the drive in Windows Xp when a pop-up message flashed from the bottom right saying that some information was lost from directories whose names started with a '$' sign (I guess they were hidden directories).
I tried ejecting the drive but it said the drive could not be stopped. So I just shut down the computer. I then took out the USB cable, re-started the computer, and then plugged it back in. But the drive was not starting up. The green light comes on when I plug it in, but there is no noise coming from it. Before, you could hear something spinning inside when it was plugged in.
I tried plugging it to a different computer but it doesn't work there either. Is there something I can do to fix the drive? I would appreciate any help I can get.

 

[ski]

If that setup had worked previously, then it appears that either the HD or the USB enclosure is toast.

 

[garebo]

You can take the h drive out of the case and slave it to any pc and see if its ok or not.
As ski said, it could be the enclosure or the h drive or both. Usually its just the enclosure. But its possible to be both.



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