Unable to access external hard drive

[wuanju]

I have a Buffalo Drive Station 1TB External Hard Drive. I've used it for three months w/o having any issues w/ it until yesterday. As usual, I plugged it in my pc and waited for it to automatically run. (my os is an xp pro servicepk3 btw) While i was waiting, my I.E. froze, and i got the blue screen of death. After restarting my computer, I tried plugging it in again and it will read, but i just can't access it. It shows up on the bottom right corner where i could 'safely remove it' and when i open up 'my computer' the icon appears as a normal drive (it usually has its specific icon and name) but i can't click in to it. When i attempt to click it, my computer goes in to a long lag. I tried everything i could possibly think of, unplugging the cables, reinstalling the driver, using different ports, etc. Any other ideas?

 

[Tmagic650]

The Master Boot Record (MBR) may be corrupt. You may have to format the drive again, loosing any data on the drive

 

[wuanju]

thanks. but is there any way to recover the mbr of the drive?

do you think if its possible if i used dos to
chkdsk l: /r and fixmbr?

i know thats one way to fix the mbr when c: drive is corrupt.