Extenal HDD won't power up

Hello I am in desperate need of help/advice. I have an External HDD that I borrowed from a family member to grab some photos from them. I just came back from a trip only to discover the Hard Drive Won't power up, even though it was working perfectly fine before the vacation.
The power cord's light is glowing however when i press the on/off button on the harddrive itself the light on the harddrive won't go nor would it register on my computer. is there any possible way to power up/fix my hard drive if not extract all of the data on this harddrive and put it on a new one... I would hate being the one who caused my family member to lose all of those photos AND memories.
Thanks for the help.

Hi
What to say buddy the story sounds not good.
If you cannot power on the external HDD and it does not appear in My Computer then the chances are that your external HDD has died.
According to your posting it must be a 3.5 HDD. Maybe it could be possible to remove the HDD from the case and to connect it to the desktop PC using a IDE cable to check if it could be possible to get access the HDD.
But this is only theory.
Anyway, it looks not good and I assume its a hardware issue.

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