Is my HDD Completly screwed?

Nether

Nether

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Hello team spidEY :P JK. Anyways I'm curious back in april on my main computer I was watching anime and by accident I tripped on my Headphone wire and BOOM my HDD wouldn't work anymore is there any way to know if it still works? I plan on testing it in a bit even after testing it a whole damn lot.

Nether
 
I'm puzzled at how you wreck your hard-drive from tripping on headphones o.o, did you knock ur computer over? did it fall?

Anyway if it makes any grinding or screeching noises it prob means the spindle is messed, If you can still get to your Bios screen and get some words like non system disk or cannot find Os or so and so. it means your Hard-drives probably fried,dead or Dying.

My advice is try getting a External hard-drive case, toss in your "broken" HDD and see if you can get any info off of it running on a secondary computer. if nothing shows up or it can't read it then its probably gone and u should bury it. Also listen to any noises that it might make. odd ones Scratching, sqeeking, Banging. They can all mean Different things


Hope you can recover your files R.I.P HDD,
 
Always check physical connections first before anything else. Pull open the computer and make sure all of the power cables and SATA cables are plugged in. The HDD should have one SATA cable and one power. While the computer is open you might as well make sure everything else is secured.
 
I should've been a little bit clearer it's a laptop and also it fell a good 3 feet max.
 
Chances are, since the laptop was running when it fell from that height, the heads probably crashed into the platters, physically damaging them. I imagine when you boot up, the BIOS doesn't detect any bootable device? If so, it's safe to say the drive is unrecoverable, unless you want to pay a data recovery service a couple thousand dollars and even then, there's no guarantee.

Sorry my friend. :(
 
Depending on your technical expertise, you can replace the malfunctioned parts, depending on what they are. ie; the arm, the head, etc.

Every single part of a hard drive is assembled in a 100% clean air atmosphere.

Although it's extremely rare that you'll able to reproduce such conditions, you can get your hard drive working long enough to take the data you need off of it before the dust, allergen, etc mess it up completely.
 
Ric said:
Depending on your technical expertise, you can replace the malfunctioned parts, depending on what they are. ie; the arm, the head, etc.

Every single part of a hard drive is assembled in a 100% clean air atmosphere.

Although it's extremely rare that you'll able to reproduce such conditions, you can get your hard drive working long enough to take the data you need off of it before the dust, allergen, etc mess it up completely.
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Ric,

I didn't suggest that because 99.9% of the population doesn't even have access to an ISO class 100 clean room, let alone the ability or experience needed to successfully disassemble the arm assembly without causing more damage or completely destroying the drive. The rule of thumb is, you open the hard drive up in a normal environment, without even touching the arm assembly, you've destroyed the drive.
 
this is a good time for you to invest in an SSD for your laptop... though not 100% damage proof from a 3 foot drop, an SSD would have had a better chance of survival. Replacement will take a bit of time but it's not too difficult, and you will probably find a video on YouTube for your make and model to assist with the replacement.
 
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