[Beer Can]

Loathe though I may be to ask the internet for technology help... I messed this one up, and the troubleshooter is no help (as expected).

So, we had a flood in our basement about a week or so ago. In the basement was my backpack in which I stored my electronic doodads for the summer, and importantly, my external hard drive. It's a Western Digital Passport style, 80 GB. Before anyone asks, no idea if it got wet.

The problem was, I thought I had emptied the entire backpack before putting it in the dryer to eliminate the copious amounts of water it had absorbed. You see where this is going. Upon taking it out, I found I had a warm but dry hard drive in there.

Now, when I attempt to connect the hard drive, the device manager seems to recognize its existence as a USB Mass Storage device, but not what kind of hard drive it is. Furthermore, it does not appear in Windows Explorer.

So. Can I make it work, or do I now have a $100 paperweight?