Help! Dropped my external HD and now it won't work!

joint in a tree
joint in a tree Posts: 392
edited April 2009 in Technical Stuff and Help
Ok, so my husband wants to kill me. I had the hard drive running (500 GB and full of music) and was updating ipod. Somehow, don't ask, I dropped it. Now it won't work. Everyone i talk to says i'm pretty much SOL, since it was running when i dropped it.
PLEASE! any recommendations? Can this be fixed????
"Find myself singing the same songs every day....
ones that make me feel good when things behind the smile ain't ok...." -Hoon
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  • vduboise
    vduboise Posts: 1,937
    When you plug it in, does it make any sounds? Does it show up? have you tried a disk utility to see if it shows up- not to fix (DON'T DO THAT!! makes it harder to recover) Otherwise, you will probably need data recovery- and its not cheap (my husband does this for a living). If your worried and you definitely want the data-don't mess with it- take it to a professional. DriveSavers is a good company- based in California- not cheap. You can try local- but make sure that they know what they are doing.

    good luck.

    edit: I see you are in long island, you can take it to TekServe in Manhattan- they do good work. Its a Macintosh only company- but they do reco for any operating system- even PC
  • TheDecline13
    TheDecline13 Posts: 990
    disk warrior is good. if it does mount pull everything off right there... This will teach you to back stuff up...sorry best of luck to ya
    Tour with fucking NOFX
  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    she was backing it up. she just dropped it. :(
    *~Pearl Jam will be blasted from speakers until morale improves~*

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