Here's a free utility called testdisk that can recover the fat tables and boot sectors. I just now found it and am going to download it myself for future use.

Thank ye much kind sir. I'll let you know if/how well it helped

You're welcome. I'd be interested to know how well it works because it would come in pretty handy if it does.

I hooked the drive up to my Laptop to try this-- The laptop dosen't even want to reconize it as a hard disk >.>

This tool won't let me me just pick a device. Apparently it has to be reconized as a disk drive.

Scratch that. It now knows it's a USB mass sotage device, but it still won't logically mount it.

this is kind of a long shot, but did you try going in to control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management and seeing if it's showing up in there and if it is, try assigning it a drive letter and see if it will mount it after that.

Dosen't show up at all. I've been looking there!

Here's something strange, though-- The power button will turn it on but not back off (note that I found this out after this has happened).

You can use Knoppix fairly easily to mount the drive and pull your data to a flash drive or other available storage media.

Download the Knoppix ISO from here

KNOPPIX Linux Live CD

Just the CD will do, you don't need the DVD version. Burn it, boot from it and attempt to mount your drive.

Sometimes it works if you disassmeble the external drive caddy, remove the drive and attach it directly to your PC - it cuts out all the USB rubbish.

If Knoppix won't mount it, I don't think you will get much further without professional help.