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Dropped External Hard Drive

  • 10-01-2010 11:03pm
    #1
    tony231974
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 160 ✭✭


    Help,I dropped my Western Digital 500GB external hard drive on the wooden floor while it was running,since then only the blue light comes on and my laptop dosen't reconise it.No noise comes out of it.
    Can it be fixed?I need some files from it.Thanks
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  • #2
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Best thing to do is rip the caddy apart and see if any ribbon / sata or power cables got dislodged from the HDD during the fall.


  • #3
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    thats f00ked im affraid.

    you could try them recovery guys, gonna cost you tho.

    a drop on a wodden floor while its running is instant death


  • #4
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Moved to Comp and Tech from laptops.
    Yeah i'd take it apart as well and see if anything has become disconnected.


  • #5
    Melanoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Melanoma


    If you could get another known good disk drive and compare the two visually. This might reveal something.

    If the recording head crashed into the media then it may have got stuck like a mirror gets stuck to another mirror when laid flat on top of each other. Now if it were possible to take it apart (dangerous springs up) get the head off the media (it rips of damaging the media) and put in the remaining platters into a good disk drive and try to recover the files it might work.

    This is a job though to hard for the average Joe. I'd say its broke and that's about it.


  • #6
    x in the city
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,134 ✭✭✭x in the city


    take the hdd unit out and shove it into a caddy, an external usb caddy

    be a miracle if it boots up.


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Sometimes sticking it in the freezer for a couple of hours can work just giving you enough time to retrieve data from it.


  • #8
    Melanoma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 310 ✭✭Melanoma


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Sometimes sticking it in the freezer for a couple of hours can work just giving you enough time to retrieve data from it.

    Funny thing it might work. If the recording device contracted at a different rate to the media it might lift off. Genus idea!!:D


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