SEAGATE hard drive

[mrorange99]

i knocked my 2 tb hard drive off a coffee table and it hit the hard floor. the computer makes the sound that its plugged in but doesnt recognize it when i go to my computer. is there away to recover the info or is it lost to me?

 

[GhislainG]

Send it to a recovery service; Seagate most likely provide the service. It will obviously be expensive.

 

[jsmithepa]

If the information is that important that you are willing to spend, then the solution above is what is.

Otherwise, there is a wrap-drive-in-towel-and-wack-it-on-the-table method on the Internet that some people have said it resuscitated their drives. I do not know the success rate.

p.s.: Is this an external drive? If so, and you are lucky, maybe just a jarred cable.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there mrorange99,

In case the data on the drive is really important, you shouldn't try to recover it by yourself. Even powering it up may not be a good idea.
Most of the HDD manufacturers provide their own data recovery services or have some trusted data recovery partners. You can check that out.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD