My Buffalo drive stopped working since last night. It was on my laptop and attached by USB when it was knocked over the table and hung off the side. Now whenever I try to reconnect my HD I get the "The disk you inserted is not readable by this computer." I reset the PRAM and tried Disk Utility but nothing works so far (Disk Utility doesn't even detect the HD). Also, there's a strange whirring sound coming from the HD itself, like it's trying to start up, but fails.
Is there anything I can do before I bring it to a recovery service? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Buffalo HD-PXT1.0TU2-RD that I bought overseas in Japan.
I am running a Macbook with OS X 10.8.2.