Dropped WD My Passport Ultra

[nitroscott17]

Hi all! Last night I was moving some files around when I had a seizure, holding my plugged in ext 2tb. Someone else in the room who is also tech savy saw me slam the running external against the wood tablet two times then drop it, plugged in from roughly 2 feet. I haven't even tried plugging it back in afraid whatever time it has left would be waisted inspecting it. I have about 5 years of photos, games, docs and program backups I'm terrified of losing. Is there a test I can run to see if the hdd is alright? Should I not test it and just immediately recover the files?I have yet to plug it back in and see if it works. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks

 

[RolandJS]

Get this to a data recovery company / specialist post haste -- forget about trying to fix it -- the only hope I can see is replacing the teeny tiny heads and hope for the best. A local data recovery person, not a computer hardware / software tech, should be consulted as to your next step series to take.

 

[USAFRet]

God idea in NOT turning it on. If this data is in any way valuable, I'd contact a data recovery company.
The drive may be fine, it may completely eat your data the first time it is plugged in.
Any repair at the consumer level is likely to make things worse.

Data that exists on only one drive may be said to not exist at all.
Always operate on the premise that your drive and data is never more than 0.25 secs away from dying completely.
Backups on more than one drive is the key here.

 

[nitroscott17]

Hey guys sorry I never selected a best answer. I don 't remember writing this but it definitely happened! In case anyone was wondering, I looked into data recovery on my own accord and it was going to be way too expensive so i took a gamble and plugged it in, I immediately pulled all my files off and formatted, ran chkdsk to verify no damaged sectors and have been using it ever since to just move games or something from one pc to another and not as a backup. I narrowly missed data death that day haha.