just dropped my seagate external hardrive and it doesnt work! please help!?

Question

is there any quick fix at home that i could try? i will eventually take it to the 'geek squad' or similar to see if they can retrieve the data. i have about 300 Gigs of music and movies that i do not want to loose! :(

The hd dropped from about 2 ft. it remained on, but was inaccessible.
i turned it off and on, but the computer would not recognize the hd (does not show up in My Computer).
There was no jet engine roaring sound when i turned it on. In fact, there is only a purring sound. when it was working, it sounded like a disc was spinning. right now theres just that purring sound.
is there any way to recover the files from the hd?? i have about 300 gb of valuable info that i'd hate to loose!!
please help / advise!
thank you for your time/help.
much appreciated.

Answer 1

No, the odds are you have done some serious damage to it.

Answer 2

First, possible understand that there are 2 distinctive sizes of GB. interior the metric gadget, the prefixes kilo, mega, giga mean 1000 (10^3), a million (10^6), 1000 million (10^9). those are the meanings used via no longer uncomplicated force manufacturers in specifying the skill of their drives. A 250 GB force, then, has 250 billion bytes. however, those prefixes have a distinctive meaning while utilized to computing device memory. A kilobyte is 1024 bytes (2^10 instead of 10^3) A megabyte is 1024 kilobytes or 1024*1024 bytes A gigabyte is 1024 megabytes. So while your computing device comments the dimensions of a 250 billion byte force, it somewhat is going to record it as: 250 billion / (1024^3) GB = in basic terms approximately 233 GB This nevertheless leaves a fifty 3 GB discrepancy (instead of 70). a number of that's needed for "overhead" yet i does no longer anticipate it to be that lots. another possibilites: There are barriers with specific BIOS and likewise till now variations of domicile windows. i could could look those up, yet i do no longer think of one hundred eighty GB replaced into one in each of those limits (however i should be incorrect). verify that there are not any hidden partitions (however i could in basic terms anticipate this on a force blanketed with a working laptop or computing device, yet some exterior drives would have specific application blanketed -- verify your drives documentation).

Answer 3

its probably toast. the heads on a hard drive do not actually touch the platters but are very,very close to it. so cloase that a fingerprint will ruin the drive.

when you tried it for the first time after you dropped it did it make a sound like a jet engine starting up or a whineing sound? if so it suffered a head crash and is scratched and not repairable. If it wont power up you may have a chance of repairing it but hard drives dont cope with shock or esd well.

Answer 4

I would never take it to the geek squad, since they sold out to best buy they just don't have the knowledge base to really do what you need....you could try setting it up as a slave drive and use a recovery program, but if it won't boot or makes alot of clicking noises, or is really loud, you may have damaged the drive and data recovery is expensive.

Answer 5

Hi it is very likely that your hard drive has a lot of bad sectors and is even unaccesible.
In this case, I believe the best thing is to call the seagate.com customer service and tell them what happened and ask them how you can get your files back. I think they might be able to get your data back but you will have to pay for that.

Hard drives are very delicate, and if you drop them even from a very short distance they get bad sectors and most of the time makes it unusable anymore.

Answer 6

Sorry to hear. Dont waste your time going to Geek Squad for that.
I think the mainframe of the External Drive got damaged.
Unplug that and take the actual harddrive out.
It's for sure a IDE so plug it to your computer and it should work.

Make sure it's SLAVE... (chipset)

Good luck

Answer 7

How in the world do you fried something when you drop it? Oh well my question is this, is it still under warranty? If so they will gladly send you a new one. Take and God bless.

Answer 8

your hard drive is proablly fried. Droping hard drives scraches the disk and fries them, theres proably nothing you can do except get a new hard drive.