So my cat knocked my laptop off my bed while it was on. I picked it up and it had shut down so I turned it back on. It ran completely normal and had no problem whatsoever. Then I go to shut it down when I was done with it and windows said it needed to install 24 updates so it did then shut down. I go to turn my laptop on the next day and i get a black screen saying "A recent change in hardware or software may be preventing windows from running properly" something along those lines. So I took it to staples and they said it was my hard drive, they hooked it up to their computers and said it failed 2 tests of the bat. They put a new hard drive in and reinstalled windows. They couldn't recover my data. I don't know exactly was is wrong with the hard drive but does anyone think data recovery is likely if it is physically damaged from a drop? I have very important legal and irreplaceable documents on it that I seriously need. I was told I could send it to Seagate for a VERY pricey (at least $1000) option but would they even be able to recover my music, images, document, programs and such?? Please help!
Dropped Laptop hard drive data recovery?
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smorizio
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I would try the 40 fix. Buy a USB to hard drive kit. It come with laptop adaptor to plug your laptop drive into USB port. If it working you should be able to get windows to see the other drive to pull your data off. You can try using recovia from people that makes ccleaner to see if it can pull your data off. If the drive had a head crash then a lab got rebuild the drive. I pick up a network storage drive and use a backup software or cloud storage to save your work too once every few days.
if you are savvy enough and cautious enough you can take the platters out of the damaged drive and put them into a new drive.
try getting an empty external hdd case and putting it in there first.
also try replacing the pcb board on the outside of the hard drive itself.
and lastly, while i love shiopping at staples, a lot of the time the people working do not know shit when it comes to off the wall questions such as, i dropped my laptop and now my shit wont work correctly.
fix it.
they will do the easy mode thing what they were taught. offer you a new har ddrive and os.
cash in the bank buddy.
try getting an empty external hdd case and putting it in there first.
also try replacing the pcb board on the outside of the hard drive itself.
and lastly, while i love shiopping at staples, a lot of the time the people working do not know shit when it comes to off the wall questions such as, i dropped my laptop and now my shit wont work correctly.
fix it.
they will do the easy mode thing what they were taught. offer you a new har ddrive and os.
cash in the bank buddy.
I would like to second Smorizio here on this. What spyrizzle suggests needs careful hands. If you're not good with your hands try copying data to another disk as smorizio suggests. But even that might not work. But do try.
Also get a software data recovery tool like the Acronis True Image as contingency. There's another one called Rollback Rx for PC. Its by Horizon DataSys
Its always better with such checks in place. Afterall software is not completely decoupled from the hardware.
Also get a software data recovery tool like the Acronis True Image as contingency. There's another one called Rollback Rx for PC. Its by Horizon DataSys
Its always better with such checks in place. Afterall software is not completely decoupled from the hardware.
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