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One thing you might try is installing Ubuntu on your PC (I'm assuming that you have a PC), or a laptop if you have such. What can happen is that the Master Boot Record of the drive, that Windows needs to read, gets corrupted and then can't access the drive at all.
Ubuntu (Linux) doesn't need that and can access drives that Windows can't. I've had to do this myself when a drive has become corrupted for some reason and I've been able to recover the files easily. The only problem is that installing Ubuntu isn't as easy as the Linux pundits suggest, even though it's supposed to be the most user friendly Linux distribution ever.
If you have a laptop, or a PC that isn't used much, if ever, install it in that instead and play around.
Cheers
Ray
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