i dropped my seagate backup plus 1tb and now its not making any sound .

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anuragpunk

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i accidentally dropped my seagate backup plus 1 tb hdd and now its not running , the light on hdd is on but i can't hear a single noise , i can see my hdd in devices list and in bios too but its not showing up in the main drives , what should i do now ? i have really important data on that hdd .
 
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as much as I hate to inform you of this but yes, the data on that drive is inaccessible, its there but you have no way of reading it or getting it. SSDs are different as its flash memory, the memory is not stored on a disk that has to be read so if they are dropped they have a much higher survival rate than a hhd, almost 100% of the time depending on how a hhd lands and the distance it traveled before impact determines the extent of the damage.
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that data is most likely lost forever, impacts to HHDs are what completely destroy them, the only way to get information back would be to open it and have the disk spin while the reader can see the information, but with impact drops usually the disk is severely damage and if you dont hear it spinning its most likely toast. Im sorry.
 
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what if its not getting enough power or something like that , the drive is completely silent no spinning nothing , i can hear the sound of a connecting or disconnecting device when i connect the hdd .

 
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Yes but the mechanical function of the hdd reader is broken from impact. Imagine a vinyl with the n3ddle just 100 times smaller and more delicate, once that arm is broken it can't move or read the information on that little disk. It may have even damaged the disk during the impact. It will still recognize it as a device, but the mechanical properties of said de ice are internally destroyed. Like a mouse with no laser
 
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as much as I hate to inform you of this but yes, the data on that drive is inaccessible, its there but you have no way of reading it or getting it. SSDs are different as its flash memory, the memory is not stored on a disk that has to be read so if they are dropped they have a much higher survival rate than a hhd, almost 100% of the time depending on how a hhd lands and the distance it traveled before impact determines the extent of the damage.
 
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i'm never gonna buy an external hdd again .

 
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