So my friend dropped my 2TB harddrive.....

And now its not working, I took it into my local computer shop and they were unable to retrieve the data with software. I later foud out that the Hard drive has a rip in it interally, is there anyway to recover the data evan though its phyically damaged? Ive only backed up 1 TB out of the 2 (the HD is full by the way) and I don't want to loose that 1TB of data that contains family photos etc.

Please help :(

Can I ask, how on earth did your friend manage to drop a 2TB harddrive? Why?

Can I ask, how on earth did your friend manage to drop a 2TB harddrive? Why?

XPureMadnessX

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Can I ask, how on earth did your friend manage to drop a 2TB harddrive? Why?

tramp

What was the 'rip' part of?
If the actual platters were damaged, you probably have no chance of recovering any data whatsoever, but if only the logic board was damaged you could possibly buy a new one and re-assemble it, and attempt to recover data that way.

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The good news is that unless your platters have basically become dust, you can get most of your dtaa back. The bad news is that if theres physical damage to the internal platters, your only option is to used specialized data recovery services which can run around $350-ish in your case. You can google "Data Recovery" and find several companies that offer services.I remember reading an article from a representative of one of those companies that was able to recover most of the data of a drive that someone drilled several holes through it.

A good data recovery company will attemtp to repair that portion of the drive, and by checking the frequency of changes in magnetic fields, it can roughly guess the data in there at a moderate success. Its what they do to get incriminating evidence from someone thats attempted to destroy their hard drives.

While I can't exactly help you with the data recovery...you're friend is at least offering to pay for the data recovery and purchase of a new drive right?Remmib

Yeah, you gotta make em responsible for that some valueable ---- videos in the there right? Cant live without the goods. Good luck retrieving it, but I think is good as done.

This is the reason I use velcro tape, I used it to tape my speakers in the back of my ford explorer so they won't move when im driving but I can pull them out when I need to

I used a smaller version of this velcro tape with an external HDD, it's on the side of my case, and is strong enough to keep it in place even if I shake the case

You should try it (on your next HDD), at least this way it will give you a second chance :)

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Can I ask, how on earth did your friend manage to drop a 2TB harddrive? Why?

tramp

This reminds me of when I caught my dog chewing on one of my hats. I beat him with the hat and know he's never even looked at a hat. Perhaps this may help you to get your gf to shy away from your expensive electronics.