MySATA External Hardrive

I have a huge problem, I recently formatted a SATA external hard drive to my computer so I could restore the computer. Now I have a problem because the computer no longer reads the hard drive and I have pictures that cannot be replaced on the drive. It wants to reformat the drive which would result in my loss of the pictures, What do I do?

yes I have tried to do that, but nothing so far. I even had a friend help me. We put it in the freezer and all to try and free the arm, but that didnt work either. I am almost losing hope to it being fixed.

It's an old trick to unstick HDD heads, I'm suprised he knows about it.

You need like 5 to 10 plastic bags to do it, and condensation *can* make it worse (vs better).

Try removing the HDD from the external casing, and installing it in a machine, then use the manufacturer suppplied utilities to confirm the drive is OK and do an UNFORMAT.

I am not sure what you mean by installing it in a machine. What type of a machine are you talking about, another computer? Also how do you get the maufacturer supplied utilities? They didnt send anything with the drive that would help recover it. What is a unformat. Sorry I dont know alot about computer, but I make my way through. My friend does indeed know alot about computers, He works at the university here, but even he was baffled by what would've cause the issue.