Same problem, different results with my HDD

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I accidentally dropped my 1TB HDD on the floor and it even opened up a little bit.
Since then it has been super slow, takes forever to open a file, videos in it lags and when it I try to copy things into it, it just freezes.

I tried following an another thread advice , however my results was "C5 - Current pending sector count" current - 200, worse - 200 and threashold -0.

Is this really bad or can it be fixed?
 
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D_Know_WD
Hi there MZayani,

It seems that there are no bad sectors on the drive, according to the SMART report. Yet, my guess would be that the drive has sustained some physical damage from the fall.
My suggestion would be to back up at least the most important data stored on the drive, no matter the fact that it is really slow.
One other thing you can try is the Ubuntu Live CD approach. Just boot up Ubuntu from a CD or a flash drive and try to access the drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

Keep in mind that your safest bet for recovering the data is to contact a data recovery company.

D_Know_WD
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If the drive was dropped and is now slow, there is no "fixing" it. It needs to be scrapped as it's clearly dying and will ultimately fail resulting all data being lost.

However, you should also know that high values are good values in S.M.A.R.T. It's the low numbers you have to watch out for.
 
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MZayani

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So what do you think the next step should be? (aside from buying a new one) I really have important things in there and I'm finding a really difficult time moving them out the hard disk. Any suggestions, I could use a software or something?
 
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Hi there MZayani,

It seems that there are no bad sectors on the drive, according to the SMART report. Yet, my guess would be that the drive has sustained some physical damage from the fall.
My suggestion would be to back up at least the most important data stored on the drive, no matter the fact that it is really slow.
One other thing you can try is the Ubuntu Live CD approach. Just boot up Ubuntu from a CD or a flash drive and try to access the drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/267999-32-recover-data-mode

Keep in mind that your safest bet for recovering the data is to contact a data recovery company.

D_Know_WD
 
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