hard drive broken?

Question

One day, the 500 GB SATA Western Digital EXT4 hard drive was no longer detected by the BIOS. So I used a USB cable and connected the drive to the USB port. After following a few tutorials I got this using root. Anybody can help ?

dmesg

[ 2797.127391] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 7
[ 2816.396052] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
[ 2816.529972] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2338
[ 2816.529978] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
[ 2816.529983] usb 1-5: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
[ 2816.529987] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: JMicron
[ 2816.529991] usb 1-5: SerialNumber: 152D203380B6
[ 2816.530212] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 2816.531507] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 2816.531848] usb-storage: device found at 8
[ 2816.531852] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 2821.528354] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 2821.529139] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access                                    PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 2821.530275] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[ 2821.533631] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI disk

dumpe2fs /dev/sdg

dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
dumpe2fs: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/sdg
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

dumpe2fs /dev/sdg1

dumpe2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
dumpe2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdg1
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

fsck.ext4 /dev/sdg

e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext4: Invalid argument while trying to open /dev/sdg

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 

fsck.ext4 /dev/sdg1

e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
fsck.ext4: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdg1

The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem.  If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 

mount -t ext4 /dev/sdg /mnt/debian

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdg,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
       ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

mount -t ext4 /dev/sdg1 /mnt/debian

mount: special device /dev/sdg1 does not exist

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdg

mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
/dev/sdg is entire device, not just one partition!
Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
mkfs.ext4: Device size reported to be zero.  Invalid partition specified, or
    partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, due to
    a modified partition being busy and in use.  You may need to reboot
    to re-read your partition table.

EDIT
file -s /dev/sdg

/dev/sdg: empty

Answer 1

 If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
    e2fsck -b 8193 

Did you try running the quoted command? I've had good luck (about 80% success) trying that in the past.

Before anyhing else: you did use DD (or your preferred tool) to make an image of the drive, right?