Mafelix

The drive sound like it may be dead, Ive had 3 Maxtor drive and they are useless at the best of times, yet alone when dropped. I don't like your chances of getting a replacement drive as I had to fight to get a 6month old drive that failed for no apparent reason, replaced because I wouldn't pay Maxtor the quoted $2000 to recover a 300Gig drive. Instead I took it to my local computer guy who recovered it free of charge. I then went to get a replacement drive under warranty and Maxtor didn't like that I got a non maxtor employee to recover the drive and refused to replace it. I had to fight for 12month and force them into replacing it. (forcing them by exposing them online through a webpage)

My advice is if its just an external drive (not a shared network drive) remove the internal drive replace it with a decent (IDE - this is what the drives use) 500gig (avoid maxtor dives) drive and count your losses. you could try running a drive recovery program by connecting the Maxtor drive to your pc and running programs such as r-studio but if its not spinning up its a good chance your data gone to cyberheaven.