hard drive dropped

[sarcophagus]

hi every one! i have 1tb external hard drive silicon power armor, although the company said this is anti-shock, but last nigh it fell from 10 cm or even less. but it started to make noise like fast tiking and after that the blue light of ext.hdd turned off and the noise stopped too. after that i try many thing but nothing useful. i know how to recover my data, but my main problem is that my camputer (macbook & windows pc) could not recognize my hard drive!!! any soloution?
plz don't answer me "buy another drive" or "u should remember to not drop ur hard drive" or something like these... thank you very very much. for helping me.

 

[Savage PC]

It's mechanical, if you drop it (obviously) some part of it broke or got dislodged. One time I opened one and arranged/ replaced some part and it worked again which you could do if your desperate. I also gave this guide to a friend before and he said the freezer one had worked.

http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive

(I think it's the correct one)

 

[Matt_150]

If this is an external HDD than it is most likely an internal laptop of desktop HDD inside an enclosure. You could try removing the HDD from the enclosure and connect to your PC to take the enclosure out of the equation.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there sarcophagus,

Well, mechanical drives are vulnerable to shocks/hits. If the data stored on the drive is really important, you need to contact a data recovery company. Most of the HDD manufacturers offer their own data recovery services or have some trusted partners. You can check that out.

If you want to go with that option, don't open up the drive as you will expose the platters to a dust contaminated environment. Also, do not put it in a freezer.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[sarcophagus]

It's mechanical, if you drop it (obviously) some part of it broke or got dislodged. One time I opened one and arranged/ replaced some part and it worked again which you could do if your desperate. I also gave this guide to a friend before and he said the freezer one had worked.

http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Physically-Broken-Hard-Drive

(I think it's the correct one)

 

[sarcophagus]

thank you "savage pc" for paying attention and giving me a solution. as i said i tried many things even though exchanging the "sata bridge" part of my ext.hdd. not working!
i think ur right! i'm so desperate right now because the data was very important! too important actually. i shall try what u suggest before.
thank you again.

 

[sarcophagus]

If this is an external HDD than it is most likely an internal laptop of desktop HDD inside an enclosure. You could try removing the HDD from the enclosure and connect to your PC to take the enclosure out of the equation.

 

[sarcophagus]

thank you "matt_150". i tried this before. even exchanging sata bridge part, but not working. seems it's mechanical problem.

 

[sarcophagus]

Hi there sarcophagus,

Well, mechanical drives are vulnerable to shocks/hits. If the data stored on the drive is really important, you need to contact a data recovery company. Most of the HDD manufacturers offer their own data recovery services or have some trusted partners. You can check that out.

If you want to go with that option, don't open up the drive as you will expose the platters to a dust contaminated environment. Also, do not put it in a freezer.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[sarcophagus]

i appreciate for helping me "D_Know_WD"
ur right but my data is very important. not for me, for the company that i work for. is there any chance that the recovery company want to steal any of this informations?
in this case i rather to have a dead hdd! :|

 

[D_Know_WD]

I doubt that this would happen. The guys working in such companies are professionals.
Yet, it would be a good idea to contact the manufacturer, so you can find out which are the trusted data recovery partners.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[sarcophagus]

I doubt that this would happen. The guys working in such companies are professionals.
Yet, it would be a good idea to contact the manufacturer, so you can find out which are the trusted data recovery partners.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD

 

[sarcophagus]

i hope so! seems i've no more options except this one. i'll do that. thank you very much. it was helpful.
))