I assume this is a Windoze box - FAT32? NTFS?
winXP, NTFS
ne hint: do NOT attempt to in-place repair the filesytem of a physically damaged harddisk - always copy the recovered data directly to another drive.
That is something i am painfully aware of....
The disk is totally unreadable. or unaccessible from any computer or OS...
It may be physical damage. when powering the external enclosure on it appears the disk will spins up. but the heads don't seem to move...
I am uncertain if i should attempt to delete the partition and set up a new partition and q format it and then try data recovery...
But it is probably best to send the disk to professional recoverer's.