Issues with Portable External Hard Drive (500GB)

I recently purchased the 500GB Toshiba-branded external hard drive in blue from my local Wal-Mart. It has been working fine for the past few months, but when I plugged it into my computer this morning, it didn't light up the LED and I couldn't feel the disk drive spinning as normal.
I tried to call Toshiba support, but all they did was ask me if the cord was damaged (it's not, at least not in any obvious fashion), and then tell me that it's the drive itself and to start a warranty claim. When I asked about all the data I already have on there (all of my family pictures and my music collection), they basically said tough noogies, they can't do anything about it.
I am going to try and plug it in at home and see if it's just this computer, but it's worked fine on this computer dozens of times. Does anyone have any advice on where to find a cord that would work, or other possible solutions? I absolutely CAN'T lose the data that's on here.
Any help is much appreciated. Thank you in advance!
Justin

Hi
I too have an issue with my portable 500gb Toshiba hard drive. No LED lit up when plugged into the USB port (Ive tried them all). I have lots of data on there that I recently wanted backing up and uploaded from my laptop whilst that was being repaired. I too believe it may be the connector because it now seems a littel bit loose. Im no technogeek so can someone please advise how I remove the drive from the portable device and where I can get another case from...or even just retrieve the data and then get rid?

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