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Dropped External Hard Drive

May 1, 2006 7:04AM PDT

I tripped over the USB cord and the HD smashed into the ground. It was running (ie Powered on). When you turn the power on it makes a siren noise (you dont even need to connect it to a computer). It is a maxtor harddrive (i dont think the case matters at all) i have determined already that it is for sure the hard drive that is the problem. I can't read this hard drive by USB. Is it fixable? Is the data recoverable?

I have also read somewhere of breaking the head. Can someone tell me what that is too.

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Sounds bad.
May 1, 2006 7:14AM PDT

You'd have to put the drive into some case to see if the host device was the failure, but a drop while running is just plain bad. No other way to put it.

Bob

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New question
May 1, 2006 7:28AM PDT

Is there any way to retrieve the data for free? ive heard of those expensive forensic people, and i dont want that (cause im cheap)

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I'll write no.
May 1, 2006 8:03AM PDT

Since a new case will cost a few dollars to test if that's it then I'll write no.

Sorry,

Bob