External HD issue

Last night my 250GB Seagate HD, housed in a FW400 enclosure stopped working. First I thought it was the enclosure as it looked like the power to it had died. So, I removed the drive and installed it in another enclosure. When connected, again via firewire, I get the error "The disc you inserted was not readable by this computer". I went into the disk utility and the drive shows up but with no volumes and even stranger it has a new name. Disk First Aid is not available as the options are greyed out. I have a lot of data on the drive, some of it backed up however about 30gigs is not. So, I tried using DiskWarrior to try and repair the drive, however it does not see the drive. So after much frustration and poking around various forums I used Data Rescue II. It seemed to fix similar issues that others have been having, so I thought I'd give it a shot. I was excited to see the drive being read, even to the point that it had located 12000+ files. However, after the scan was complete the results came back with no files recovered. Please help, what can I do to salvage the data off this drive.

Hi babalu, welcome to Mac Forums. I am very sorry to hear about your drive, but it does sound as if it has unrecoverably died. Unfortunately, all hard drives will die eventually - it is just a matter of time. Yours seem to have gone sooner than most however. I think your only option may be to take it to a professional data recovery outfit and see if they can get the files back.

If you do have to resort to a data recovery service remember that they do charge some pretty high prices mostly because most the customers are desperate to get valuable data back.