Dropped my SONY hard drive

archfotna

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I have SONY hard drive.. I dropped it a while ago it worked fine immediately after the drop but then it stopped working.. it still has the light on when connected but it doesn't flash or vibrate from inside and when I connect it to my laptop it doesn't recognize it at all. I had windows 8.1 as operating system but when I looked for a solution someone said the Linux fedora could recognize the external hard drive and fix it.. so I downloaded the live image and it did recognize the hard but when I tried to access it it said " you don't have permission to access the contents of this folder" so I installed fedora to have root authority but after completing the install and rebooting the laptop it won't recognize the hard drive any more..
what does that mean?!! can my drive be fixed or should I just say goodbye although it was still new not a month old when it dropped..
please HELP
 
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Possibly under the 4 rubber feet?

My telekinesis app is currently on the fritz, and I can't manipulate your hand with the screwdriver in it.

archfotna

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but it was recognized after that.. it dropped about 2 month ago but was recognized in fedora today
 

archfotna

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how can i know and how to fix it?
 

archfotna

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it's in a metal enclosure i don't know how to disassemble
 

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Well..it is either the drive or the enclosure. Only one way to find out.
Being a metal enclosure, it is probably held together with screws.
 

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http://www.item2buy.com/ebay/images/SONY_HD-EG5/9.jpg
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MzMzWDUwMA==/z/JiAAAOxywXFSdBZo/$%28KGrHqR,!k4FEyVV,8rDBSdBZo2Oqw~~60_35.JPG
that's my drive. I don't see any screws