Hard drive fell to the ground during gaming

[balailomax]

hi guys, my first post here. I accidentally pushed my internal hard drive off the top of my pc casing and it fell some 1 and a half feet and hit the ground. It was heating up a lil so i had taken it out of the casing and placed it on the top just to bring the temp down a bit. I was playing an online game when the hard drive fell. Now it wont start. It just makes a constant dim noise like it's running but the windows wont boot. Is it toast? can i atleast get my data? i tried connecting it to my laptop using a USB connector but nothing. The same noise and the windows said the USB device not recognized. Thanks for your help.

 

[Supermuncher85]

Your drive is pretty much toast. There is no way of getting the data off from a physically damaged drive par a clean room and lots of time or money. Next time leave the drive in the case and just add more fans.

 

[balailomax]

 

[mcnumpty23]

if you have really important data on there its sometimes possible to replace the drive circuit board on the bottom with another identical one and the drive will work--it has to be exactly the same part number--

this will only help if its the circuit board and not the drives internal parts and it can be a pain to find the identical board--off ebay usually--drives are so cheap nowadays unless you have all your really important data on there its not worth the bother but i have successfully done this a couple of times to recover peoples huge photo collections that they didnt have the sense to back up somewhere

failing that as supermuncher said its a clean room job and a huge bill or bin it