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| « Re: Maxtor/Seagate External Hard drive fell 18 inches..Now won't work (Jay J) | « » 11:26 AM 6/29/2008 |
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From the looks of it, you have a damage file system/table. Was the hard drive turned ON while you were doing this? Was there a constant data flow or writing going on? If the file system is damaged you will need to send it into a data recovery center and data recovery won't be guaranteed. If the hard drive was not turned on or writing data at the time, it could be just a damaged reading and writing head, which you will also need to send in to a data recovery center to get it fixed.Bottom line: based on what you posted I think you will need to send it to a professional data recovery center. Although not necessarily cheap, but repairing damaged file tables usually has a 90 to 92% success rate. But most data recovery places will charge 3 to 4 hundred dollars, but should be free if they can't fix it. I had a hd die on me once and I lost so much of my pictures from college. (rather upsetting) Since that day all my hard drives are raid mirrored.
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| « Re: Maxtor/Seagate External Hard drive fell 18 inches..Now won't work (Xentropa) | « » 2:46 PM 6/29/2008 |
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The HD was idle. just plugged into my computer's USB port.
It was on but not transferring data.
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take the drive out and plug it into your PC as a slave drive. that may or may not help.
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| « Re: Maxtor/Seagate External Hard drive fell 18 inches..Now won't work (Xentropa) | « » 11:13 PM 6/29/2008 |
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| Quote, originally posted by Xentropa » | | From the looks of it, you have a damage file system/table. Was the hard drive turned ON while you were doing this? Was there a constant data flow or writing going on? If the file system is damaged you will need to send it into a data recovery center and data recovery won't be guaranteed. If the hard drive was not turned on or writing data at the time, it could be just a damaged reading and writing head, which you will also need to send in to a data recovery center to get it fixed. Bottom line: based on what you posted I think you will need to send it to a professional data recovery center. Although not necessarily cheap, but repairing damaged file tables usually has a 90 to 92% success rate. But most data recovery places will charge 3 to 4 hundred dollars, but should be free if they can't fix it. I had a hd die on me once and I lost so much of my pictures from college. (rather upsetting) Since that day all my hard drives are raid mirrored. |
$300-400 is much too low of an estimate. reputable places that have been known to recover data charge $1/MB...
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| Quote, originally posted by andyep3 » | | take the drive out and plug it into your PC as a slave drive. that may or may not help. |
That will screw up teh warranty on the HD itself? wont it?
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That will screw up teh warranty on the HD itself? wont it? |
dropping the drive voided the warranty  don't try sending it in either, because they will know you've dropped it.
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Try sticking it in the freezer for a few minute or until the core temp drops down. careful of condensation.
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In general you shouldn't use USB 2.0 for working drives. I have had problems with that before. If you use it to occasionally move files and store data, its fine, but you shouldn't boot off of a USB 2.0 external drive or run a computer game from it.
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| Quote, originally posted by awang » | dropping the drive voided the warranty don't try sending it in either, because they will know you've dropped it. |
The problem which happened is common its on the maxtor/seagate help desk online...About 1/4 users get it..Without letting it fall.
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