Spinrite won't run on a USB drive.  It will have to be taken out of the enclosure 
and mounted into a desktop system for Spinrite to work at low level.  This is the 
best way to recover and work with a drive anyway.  Most likely however, the damage 
to the drive isn't something Spinrite is designed to fix/recover anyway if it's just 
corruption/FS damage.    IME, the enclosure interface has either failed or scrambled 
the drive (as a lot of chipsets in these units are known to do), if the drive is 
physically OK, or the drive was powered down/disconnected before it was finished 
writing to disk..

It's the biggest reason we don't ever count on an external USB/Firewire drive for 
reliable storage.  Either way, I have learned that it is best to work with recovery 
efforts and repair while there is no operating system loaded and running.  Windows 
utilities can work well in some instances, but you can also do more damage/corruption 
in other instances if the encloser interface is defective..

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