Can You Get an Extgernal Hardrive to Read if It Dropped on the Floor?

NinjaPotatoe

I accidentally dropped my bulldoze coz my manus accidentally tugged the cable of the drive thus it falls

the problem is when I plug my drive the PC makes the detection sound and then later a few seconds the disconnection sound rings and so the drive'southward LED blinks

I tried some techniques from google and they haven't worked so far.
I'm too afraid to open information technology upwards I might terminate up breaking it even more can I at least save the files I got there?

Help is much appreciated

christinebcw

At that place's a good chance that the difficult-drive isn't damaged, but merely the external case's power-boards or connections are damaged.

Seagate Externals have real genuine plastic clips that must be broken to open up up the shell. Pitiful. I use a flathead screwdriver to wedge the sides of the instance open up, and requite it a twist. Yes. I'll hear plastic clips break. Snap-crackle-popular. Then, I can use a philips-head spiral-commuter to unscrew the HDD. (Later, you can buy a new external case for $xx, by the style. It won't exist Seagates, just it can be more colorful and exercise exactly the aforementioned task.)

You can purchase a USB-to-IDE/SATA 'kit' that will let you plug the USB connector into your laptop, and then plug the HDD into the other port (IDE or SATA, depending on age of your external bulldoze). If the drive is good, it volition power upward and your notebook can view information technology like that.

Reckoner retailers might take this kit, and on-line places will, usually in the $15-35 range - USB 3.0 connectors will be more than expensive and will accept faster data-transfers, only USB 2's will exist effective too.

Wimukthi · Aug 28, 2013 23 0 ten,520 ii

External Hard Drives can become damaged easily when you lot drop them. Its probably damaged within and your best bet would be to prove it to a technician or data recovery person.

rhysiam · Mar 24, 2013 4,367 28 26,990 972

Yeah, that's actually bad unfortunately.

Definitely open it upward though, as you won't do any further damage to the bulldoze (you could potentially do more impairment to the enclosure, but that's hardly worth annihilation anyway).

Have you a got a desktop PC? If so, y'all should be able to remove the harddrive itself from the external enclosure and (temporarily) plug the drive straight into the computer. You tin e'er infringe the ability and SATA cable from the back of your CD/DVD drive if yous don't have whatsoever spare cables.
Reckoner must be off if you're messing with internal cabling!

If you boot to windows, the drive may merely appear. If non, go into Disk Management and encounter if you can find the drive and assign it a drive letter.
If it doesn't appear at all then information technology's not skilful news. If you really need the data you probably have to approach a recovery specialist and expect to pay big dollars.
If you can detect your files, I would recommend copying them off and replacing the harddrive. The bulldoze itself may be fine (you lot may accept just damaged the enclosure), but it's not worth risking it for the sake of a difficult drive.

Good luck. Let us know how yous become on?

NinjaPotatoe

I accept a Desktop but its somewhat actually one-time and got tons of weird programs in it. I can't risk the files getting viruses I really demand these.
I utilise laptop btw

rhysiam · Mar 24, 2013 four,367 28 26,990 972

Well, the desktop is the all-time way if you want to attempt it yourself. Accept you got a friends with a desktop who could aid you out?
Otherwise effort your local computer repair store or, if you're really stuck, you'll need to arroyo a specialist data recovery company. Wait to pay big for the latter (though I would expect they'd be able to get your data dorsum).

christinebcw · Sep 8, 2012 472 0 10,960 84

There's a good chance that the hard-drive isn't damaged, but just the external instance's power-boards or connections are damaged.

Seagate Externals have real 18-carat plastic clips that must be broken to open up upwardly the shell. Distressing. I utilize a flathead screwdriver to wedge the sides of the instance open, and give information technology a twist. Yes. I'll hear plastic clips break. Snap-crackle-pop. And so, I tin use a philips-head spiral-driver to unscrew the HDD. (Subsequently, yous can purchase a new external case for $xx, by the way. It won't be Seagates, merely it can exist more than colorful and exercise exactly the same job.)

You tin can purchase a USB-to-IDE/SATA 'kit' that will let y'all plug the USB connector into your laptop, and then plug the HDD into the other port (IDE or SATA, depending on age of your external drive). If the drive is good, it will power up and your notebook can view it like that.

Computer retailers might have this kit, and on-line places will, usually in the $15-35 range - USB iii.0 connectors will exist more expensive and will have faster data-transfers, but USB 2'due south will be constructive as well.

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