All the computers in the world hate me!

Sorry guys again but my external hard drive which held all my pics has decided to not be recognized by my laptop now! I've just had the worst luck this year with computers... I'll try to find some for my next post but I'm just warning that they might not be very good as there seems to be a thinspo drought at the moment.

Anyway if anyone has any advice that could help me fix it please leave a comment, it would be much appreciated! My hard drive is HP 500GB Model No: hd5000s

-Thanks