Way to get a physically damaged hard drive to mount?

[Sparktown]

I'm trying some data recover for a friend on a damaged drive. It was damaged in a fall and clicks when it spins up, so I'm pretty sure its physical damage. I'm not optimistic about being able to get any data off of it, because I can't even get it to mount. I put the drive in an external enclosure and tried mounting it in both Windows 10 and Linux Mint. However, it doesn't show up in Windows File Explorer, Windows Disk Management, GParted, MiniTool Parition Wizard or Linux Disks. I can't find the drive in BASH either although there are a couple of commands for finding unmounted drives in BASH, so I don't know I tried all of them.

I'm about ready to write this off. However, I don't do a lot of data recovery so I wanted to check to see if there was anything I might have missed. Is there some way that I may have missed that is worth trying? Thanks.

 

[N3rdR4ge]

all you can do at this point is send it to a data recovery company. there are tons of them. there is a lot more they can do, but it's usually expensive.

 

[Rogue Leader]

If its clicking like that, thats the heads crashing into stuff. The more you try to mount it the more damage is done.

I would suggest if the data is critical stop right now send it out for data recovery. Otherwise the drive is junk

 

[USAFRet]

If no OS can see it, it is gone gone gone, unless you want to stump up lots of $$$. And even then, maybe not.

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[DSzymborski]

I'm trying some data recover for a friend on a damaged drive. It was damaged in a fall and clicks when it spins up, so I'm pretty sure its physical damage. I'm not optimistic about being able to get any data off of it, because I can't even get it to mount. I put the drive in an external enclosure and tried mounting it in both Windows 10 and Linux Mint. However, it doesn't show up in Windows File Explorer, Windows Disk Management, GParted, MiniTool Parition Wizard or Linux Disks. I can't find the drive in BASH either although there are a couple of commands for finding unmounted drives in BASH, so I don't know I tried all of them.

I'm about ready to write this off. However, I don't do a lot of data recovery so I wanted to check to see if there was anything I might have missed. Is there some way that I may have missed that is worth trying? Thanks.

Once there's physical damage to the hard drive to the degree that it won't mount or be read in any circumstances, the only people that can save any of your data (maybe) are those at a data recovery firm who can dissect your hard drive in a clean room. That can get pretty expensive -- figures over $1000 are not uncommon -- so you'll have to decide if there's any data worth that much to recover. What it comes down to is the best time to recover data is before you lose it, by having a robust backup solution.