Lost power and now I can't access my backup drive

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L:\ is not accessible.

The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error.

I just got this error when I tried to access my external hard drive. I moved it to my desktop (from my laptop) and I ge the same error just a different drive letter.

I saw that there was a recall on HP laptop batteries. My laptop was plugged in and I knew from previous experience I could remove the battery while the systen was still on and it would be fine. Well apparently it only lets your run without a battery for a minute or two because my system shut off. When I put the battery back in and restarted my external hard drive was no longer accessible.

Now I've got about 230gb of media on there that took me a very long time to collect. I'd really hate to lose it all.

So anyone encountered this before, and more importantly fixed it. It's a Maxtor one touch 250GB external hard drive.

[Slacker]

Bump.

Disk Management shows the drive as having 100% free space and a RAW file system.

Is there any data recovery programs that might work? It took me a very long time to amass my collection of TV shows and the vast majority of them were on this drive.

Of course this couldn't happen in another week or two when we've got our RAID 5 array setup: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=961223

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I used Ontrack EasyRecovery and it looks like I'll be able to recover everything. I tested it by recovering one video and it looks like it worked perfectly. Now I just need to fine 230GB of hard drive space to recover everything too.