Ok, so yesterday I dropped my 500gb external hd and it no longer works, it just make a beeping noise from the HD.  I took the hd outta the case and installed it on my PC to see if maybe the power supply or circuit board was damaged but it still only beeps.  So the HD itself must be broke or something like that.  Has anybody ever heard of problems like this??  I know most likely there is no chance of it ever working again but I thought I would ask.   It's just really chocolatey to lose all that data.  Only thing I could really find out about this problem was This Topic and I don't think there is a fix for it.  Just wanted to get the Epeople's thoughts.


So anyway, I have another HD (40GB Maxtor D740X-6L) I would like to reformat to use on my PC but it is formatted for a PS2 and when it's connected to my PC it does not show in My Computer, I can't seem to reformat it using dos, I guess it has something to do with the way it's formatted for the PS2.  Do you think it would show up in when I boot my bios and I could reformat it that way?

So day, it sucks.  Any help with ether question would help.  Thanks