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Help I dropped my external HDD

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I dropped a external western digital on the floor with about 2 tb of stuff on it that I would like to save. If the device is plugged in via the usb port the then my laptop stops responding in the "this pc" menu.  Clicking on it in the "this pc" menu normally crashes pathfinder and the one time I got acces to my data was a pain. I managed to move about 5 gb in about 12 hours and saved the most important stuff, but at speeds of a few kb/sec. The external hdd does not show up in diskpart, but as said before only in the "this pc" menu. I have taken it apart and put directly in my desktop through the sata and the story is the same (even with a sata connection I cannot find it in diskpart). however most of the time it doesn't show up at all when i boot up my desktop except in the boot menu in my motherboard. The device always powers up and I even get the audio prompt telling me I have connected it when useing the usb connection, but in most cases it never appears in "this pc menu" only after a couple of re - boots.

 

The HDD is a WD 20EARS and I am runng win 8 64 bit

 

sry for the poor technical descriptions and the poor english.... I am danish so it is my third language

 

I could really use a hand with this so pls tell my if you need more info

 

 

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Drive savers is in California 
http://www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com/

 

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most of the time its GG HDD you can try and recover data by yourself with a linux disc, if that fails you can try to rebuild it with some recovery software but like you said its very slow the the probable cause is either the header got damaged or one of the plates got a scratch from the drop. 

 

you can use it as a doorstop now sorry but this is the hard true, dropping HDD = death point plank  

 

soz buddy GL recovery the data 

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I have tried plugging it in my desktop with both sata and another time useing the usb/converter that one normally uses for external hdd. However nothing seems connect the way it should. I would like to save what I can, but I am not going to send it to california/England to save it so thx for the idea TDP_Equinox, but I am not spending that kind of money on a 2,5 year old 100 dollar external drive :)

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I have tried plugging it in my desktop with both sata and another time useing the usb/converter that one normally uses for external hdd. However nothing seems connect the way it should. I would like to save what I can, but I am not going to send it to california/England to save it so thx for the idea TDP_Equinox, but I am not spending that kind of money on a 2,5 year old 100 dollar external drive :)

Not sure where you live, but im sure you can find a closer department that does data recovery.

Here in BC i know of one, the name of i can't remember, but they are in vancouver.

There are plenty of different places if the data means that much to you.

What they do is take the platters out and recover the data with a rig full of arms. They have to do it in a sterile enviroment, and then they throw what they got on a new drive and send you that. they can be pricey, but if the data is important it might be an option.

Good luck :D

 

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