How can I open an unreadable external hard drive?
Ok, here's the situation: I've just detected the virus called usbdur, using the AVG Anti virus, and I've deleted that virus. apparently, my laptop can't detect my external hard drive after that. it won't appear in My Computer, and there's no Autorun for it. The USB ports work fine, because it can read my flash drives and optical mouse. my external hard drive lights up, but there's no whirring inside it, and no ticking sounds whatsoever. i checked device manager, and all the USB hubs are working fine. i really need to access my external hard drive, and it really is a lot of waste of money to throw away that really expensive piece of equipment 
any help would be greatly appreciated!
I'm using Windows XP with Service Pack 2. My external hard drive is Hitachi 2.5" 500GB External Hard Drive.
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Karz - May 14, 2010
Partition of external hard drive is messed up or corrupted. Try these;
1. Recover the partition;
http://hddguru. com/content/en/software/2007. 05. 25-Partition-Find-and-Mount/
2. If partition is completely damaged, just recover the files;
http://www. pcstats. com/articleview. cfm?articleid=1139&page=8