Doing something I've never done before. Hope it works!

what the heck did I do?

"You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life." -- Leo Buscaglia

Waking the Dead

For several nights, I have been sleeping late to download data recovery softwares that would try to recover important data from my external hard disk. I don't know why, but it cannot be detected by my computer, thus I could not retrieve some of my files. I'm a noob so I don't know how to use the software properly.

I never dropped it. Although I cannot really tell because the day before it went dead, I was out of the house and I left it on my bed. I don't know what happened during that time. 

There are processes to retrieve the data, that I know, but it would cost me money and time. Both of which I don't have. I tried several trial programs. I figured if one of these at least was able to detect my drive and assign a drive letter to it, I would at least purchase the program and try to revive my almost dead hdd. 

None seem to work.

What else could I do? 

Not only do I have to retrieve those files, I also need to buy another hdd. 

Oh bother!