Question Can a hard drive with actuator moved with force be recovered?

[Jobo5]

I just got curious with this.

I know I'm stupid, but when I knew nothing about the hard drive, and there is this "not so precious" hard drive, I opened up the case and touched the actuator.
Can it be recovered? or is it no use?

 

[USAFRet]

What prompted you to open the case and mess with it?

(it's dead, Jim)

 

[Jobo5]

The hard drive didn't spin when I connect it to the pc, so as I said, without any knowledge about hard drive, I wanted to see if something stuck inside the hard drive.

 

[USAFRet]

The hard drive didn't spin when I connect it to the pc, so as I said, without any knowledge about hard drive, I wanted to see if something stuck inside the hard drive.

It was already dead. When you opened it, that just put the nails in the coffin.

 

[Jobo5]

Ah.. I get it. Thank you for the answer.
Well at least I know now I should not open the hard drive.

 

[fzabkar]

Was the actuator on the platters, or was it parked on the loading ramp?

 

[jsmithepa]

Well u can plug it in and see if it fires up and play with it but if I were you, I would not actually use it to store anything I value to lose.