External hard drive not appearing in explorer

I have an external hard drive that suddenly stopped appearing in windows explorer. I tried plugging it into other usb ports or other pc's but it wont show up. When plugging it into a linux pc it seems like the problem is that the drive won't properly respond to reads. The computer isn't even able to read the file system, let alone to mount it. The drive doesn't make any weird noises and I can feel it spinning.
Is there something I can do to recover the data from this drive?