Satellite L300-110 USB external hard drive is no longer detected

I used my external hard drive via a USB connection for a while normally, I wanted to remove most of his files and only keep my important files. After I restarted my laptop it now is no longer detected

My external hard drive model is HTS54101 0G9SA00
Connected via a storage drive HARD Portable USB 2.0 Phillips

The USB ports are ok, I plugged a USB optical mouse through them and it works, and sometimes the LED on the Phillips turns red with still no detection of my laptop.

Please advise, I lost my mobile hard disk of 100 gega?

Sounds like the hard drive has failed.

The only thing I can think that you can try is to update your Chipset drivers. I don't know if this will fix the problem even if, as you have pointed out that the machine can detect other USB devices already.

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