 | Member with 452 posts. | | Join Date: Jan 2004 Experience: Intermediate | |
inside the hard drive (not the silver case of the external encloser) you have a disk which has a arm thats goes over it to read the data, it seems to me that you have dislodged this arm, now it is NOT advisable to open a harddrive, BUT if you do open it you should be prepared to recover your data immediately and buy a new one, its not worth repairing these in my opinion, many people will say that im talking rubbish, but why not open it, parially fix the problem, recover your data, and buy a new hard drive, iv done it many times before.
basically here is what i do with drives that are broken, please do this ONLY IF YOU FEEL COMFORABLE DOING SO........note i do this on my test pc,and it does work but is slightly stupid and maybe dangerous but if you know what you are doing you can recover you files.......
*NOTE ONCE YOU OPEN THE DRIVE I WOULDNT TRUST/USE IT AFTER THAT*
1) make sure you have any static gloves/strip etc
2) ensure the jumper at the back is on slave
3) open the silver case (there are screw beneath a warrenty sticker too)
4) visually inspect the inside you may notice something broken or dislodged
5) plug in the drive (CAREFULLY) into the the motherboard and then PSU while the pc is on
6) if the arm does not move forward, using a wooden stick (match stick end) slowly
7) if you do it properly windows should pick it up and you should able to bak your work up quickly over you you main hard drive.
as i say, many people would not advise this, but its something i have done many times before and it worked all the time. so i hope it helps. |
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I have a external maxtor hard drive and I dropped it from my desk to a thin carpet floor.. I plug it in and it just makes a clicking noise and then after 4 mintues or so.. it stops clicking and no noise comes out.. When i click on my comptuer it is not there 
