Drive spins, light is on, recognized in bios and in device manager but not showing in explorer

Hi,

Have you tried actual data recovery software?

From past experience I can personally recommend GetDataBack NTFS (they also have an FAT option). Being as you can access their the drive -at least to some extent -perhaps such a program will be able to rebuild some of the data. Just remember to copy (restore) any salvaged data to a *seperate* drive.

http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm

Sorry I can’t offer more expert advice, good luck

Gary