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darksnake23

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Going to have a nervous breakdown. I haven't had my drive for more than a month and my GF just knocked it off my desktop. It was still showing up in my explorer at first now it doesn't show up and i tried to reconnect and restart windows and you hear like its a disc reading and then it sounds like its loading and i have no clue. PLEASE HELP IMMEDIATELY!
 
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DSzymborski

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You can try Recuva and cross your fingers that you're able to salvage at least something, but hard drives aren't made to take a beating. Most likely, the hard drive platters have already made their trip up to that scrap metal dealer in the sky, but you *may* still be able to recover something if it's occasionally showing up in Explorer.
 
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i7Baby is right. It's toast. Hard drives can't take those hard hits. If you do some research you can find a decent price on getting the data recovered but its not going to be as cheap as you would hope...I promise. I use internal backup HDD's for this exact reason. I always have important info backed up on at least 2 drives to help guarantee against data lose. I only have to worry about a fire destroying my info, in which I'm going to chuck the ol' computer out the window and hope for the best lol.
 
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Its not showing up in explorer at all. I can see it in drive manager. But i open wd life guard and it shows up with 0mb on it. I saw some things about taking it out of the enclosure and placing it in the tower but i dont know if it will work or what will happen. I got the external so i could save iomportant things and I just lost everything.....
 
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It's a rough lesson for sure. If it's a physical problem, which it almost certainly is from your story, you're looking at several hundred dollars at a minimum for recover, with no guarantee of recovery. Getting data from a shot hard drive requires some expertise. If nothing else comes from this, at least use this as a lesson and have a real backup plan - moving files is not the same as backing them up and from something as simple as keeping stuff on multiple hard drives to optical media to flash drives to cloud services to a RAID array, there are far too many easy options to to play Russian Roulette with your valuable data.
 
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