Samsung D3 drive fails to mount - not readable

Donkeysan

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Hello,
My samsung 3Tb D3 station suffered from a a minor drop, no hard falling from table.
Now it doesn't mount any more when i connect it to my macbook.
The disk starts spinning and then i hear two clicks, and the disk stops spinning. A window pops up telling me:
"This disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"
I have the option to: > Initialize… > Ignore >Eject
In DiskUtility i can see the drive but it give me this info:
Disk Description : Samsung D3 Station Media
Connection Bus : USB
Connection Type : External
Write Status : Read/Write
S.M.A.R.T. Status : Not Supported
Total Capacity : 4.14 GB (4,142,053,888 Bytes)
Partition Map Scheme : Unformatted

Does this mean the drive is dead?! Will i be able to recover the data on the drive?
Thank you for any help!
 
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The clicks are not a good sign, it's usually caused by the read/write heads trying to free themselves from the data platters, against which they have crashed and become trapped. Such physical damage prevents the drive from functioning and it can't be fixed.

Data recovery in those circumstances is only possible by sending the drive to a data recovery specialist - - but you'll need very deep pockets for that.

Too bad you didn't back up the data to another drive whilst it was still working okay. It's unwise to rely on just one drive for data storage, especially when it's an external one (more easily damaged and more prone to failure than internal drives).
The clicks are not a good sign, it's usually caused by the read/write heads trying to free themselves from the data platters, against which they have crashed and become trapped. Such physical damage prevents the drive from functioning and it can't be fixed.

Data recovery in those circumstances is only possible by sending the drive to a data recovery specialist - - but you'll need very deep pockets for that.

Too bad you didn't back up the data to another drive whilst it was still working okay. It's unwise to rely on just one drive for data storage, especially when it's an external one (more easily damaged and more prone to failure than internal drives).
 
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