Harddrive fell and won't boot now
 

This is the second time one of my harddrives fell and stopped booting. The first one won't even make a noise when plugged in and this recent one makes the noise and even shows up in computer management but with 0GB and can't open it. Anyone know how to fix this problem? It fell about a meter but was in an external harddrive case.

how about taken it out side and dropping it on the sidewalk along with the other garbage and what not, anything in my house that doesn't boot go's outside with the chimp monks and that even go's for my wife :pimp

stop buying them. they are not built to withstand shock.

wait for the solidstates to arrive. you will save yourself a lot of grief.

The head or the actuator arm most likely broke upon impact. You can try running some recovery tools on the drive and see if anything picks up (which I highly doubt it will work at this point) or send the drive off to a repair lab if you have any important data on the drive. From the sound of it, the drive is trash.

Edit: if you have another drive of the same model laying around, you can try swapping the controllers. I've saved a few drives that way.

There is a online service that will recover the data for you.you send them the broken drive and they put it on a dvd

ugh this sucks, its a 750gb harddrive, cost me over $300 a month ago and it fell by the weight of the power supply dangling :(

if he was smart, he could do that himself and save the cash of shipping..:pimp

If you are a polio infected mofo and cannot handle shit with care .. start buying solid state hardrives.. :2 cents:

make it a slave and put it on a tower and drag the data off.

Um trying being more careful with a $300 piece of equipment

There is a company in Novato, CA called Drivesavers. Supposed to be the best in the business (I got their name at the Apple store) and when I asked a couple of other people their name came up, even from competitors! All they could say bad about Drivesavers was that they are expensive. They weren't able to save my drive, but in that case at least you don't have to pay. And they'll pay to overnight your drive to them and back to you.

What brand is it? You may be able to download some proprietary diagnostic tools from the manufacturer website, although if it's connected via USB it may not have the full range of tests available (or even see it at all?)

If you're comfortable with fooling around with hardware you could remove the drive and temporarily install it internally so that it's connected directly to the motherboard controller.

While you've got the case open, consider installing the replacement internally. :)

hahahahaha!

get better casing next time :)

I dropped mine quite a few times now and it still works.

wow, i brought it back to the place i bought it and they gave me a new one on the spot, good thing i had everything on the drive encrypted, i wasn't expecting a new drive. I just hope truecrypt does its job incase they were to fix the drive.

Should have tried a low level format / zero all sectors first