Hi i have same problem as this guy I dropped my passport and it lights up and is going round but i cant find the drive in my computer it has aked me if i want to formatt it which i dont , have you got any more ideas thanks
but you might have some luck if your drive is not making clicking sounds during spinning. its a risky option, since you expose your drive to run into potentially damaged areas caused by the impact. try downloading tool like R-studio in demo version, and see if you can locate your important files. this tool will allow you to manually select what you want to recover, and not recover the whole drive… make sure to save files on another source and not to the same disk as you recovering.
that being said, if your drive is clicking DO NOT TRY this at all. you will most likely kill the data by running software.