Hard Drive won't show up on MBP 2011 running Mavericks

My WD My Passport Edge 500GB hard drive has been working for the past 2 or so years i've had it, on all my devices including the telstra t-box, and when I go and upgrade my Snow Leopard (1.6.8) MacBook Pro 2011 to 10.9.3 Mavericks, the Hard Drive stops working, for some reason i can still use other hard drives/usbs (Tested external mouse, 1TB hard drive different brand and also 8GB USB i have). Looking at other forums i've tried looking at Disk Utility, It does not show there. However it DOES show in the System Information -> USB section. It doesn't show in finder or terminal (Using cd /volumes -> ls)
The Hard drive lights up as normal and i can still hear the faint whirring it always makes when i use it.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can assist me, i really need the data on this hard drive!

Smiggle04 wrote:
What do you mean install it in another enclosure?
All HDDs come in and are used in an enclosure or a 'case'. This a typical one:
if theres a way i can plug my hard drive into a windows computer and reformat it on there to the FAT32 thing an backup all the stuff to my second hard drive..is this an option??
If you wish to reformat a HDD, back it up (or clone it) first. FORMATTING A HDD WILL DELETE ALL DATA ON THE DRIVE!
Note that Fat32 has a 4GB file size limit. ExFAT may be a better option.
Ciao.

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