Crashed External hard drive. Suggestions

[troopie]

Before moving to my present computer I backed up all my data, on cds and an external hard drive. USB Western Digital, 80GB. The external hard drive has crashed. Any suggestions as to what I can do to recover the data?

Dankie,

troopie

[Ballbarian]

I have not had the time to study it further, but here is a link that might be helpful:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1139&page=2