Be me

>be me
>accidentally drop external hdd today.
>had all my music, lot's of porn, movies and games on it
>ohshit
>connect to pc
>doesn't turn on anymore

wat do now?? pic related

please halp

Its done man.


There are a few ways I've heard of to recover some shit from it, but if you can't access or even format it... RIP

Back that one glimmer of shitty hope I was referring to. Look up

'Find and Mount'

My old sand nigger professor used it to recover from situations like the one you're in now.
It might not work, but it could be your last attempt.

If you're lucky, it's only the enclosure that's fucked. The little laptop drives they stuff into them are actually pretty durable.

You can try Stellar Phoenix Windows data recovery. Saved my ass more than once...

It doesn't "turn on?" Do you mean there's no power? You can try taking it apart and removing the standard SATA hard drive inside and connecting it directly to your computer.

Yeah as I said, it won't even turn on. Makes no sound when I plug it in and the led doesn't light up... Guess I'm fucked.

I've lost 2 fucking TBs of good shit.


This happened to me a few times now every few years. Worst case was a 3TB drive. I'm too fucking clumsy. I hate having to redownload everything and I can't exactly remember everything I had on it.

Already tried that, opened the case and find out it's one of those special 2.5" drives that only have a USB connection, but no SATA

DO THIS FIRST YOU TECHNOLOGICALLY INCOMPETENT NOT READING THE HELP OFFERED IN YOUR OWN GODDAMN THREAD DOUBLE NIGGER

this will sound crazy but here goes anyway

try and get another of the same drive (i'e same model number) take the hard disc out of the new one and put the old one in it's place

other than that it's off to an expensive recover shop also be aware they will report you if you have beasty /barely legal stuff on it

place it in the microwave for 30 seconds. trust me this works.

Was it on at the time when you dropped it? Because if so then you probably caused a head crash, in which case you are 100% fucked

If nothing else works try putting it in the freezer, that works for some reason apparently, google it

I'm not "technology incompetent". I've 20+ years of hardware experience and I've been building my own pc rigs. see

buy solid state you broke bastard

Make sure your next purchase is an SSD or an SSD form of hard drive. They're fucking durable, I remember seeing an YouTube having an 1TB ssd the size of iPhone 4 (maybe smaller) today. It also works via USB C, so it's portable and fast.

Kill youself

Try plugging in you're backup.

your*

I think you can only open hdds in cleanroom conditions, so that's probably pointless

Like not dropping it is rule one basically. Why would you do that?

AND DATA HOARD FAGGOT

Buy multiple HDs at a time, back up your back ups. And when you upgrade, BACK UP ON ANOTHER ONE AGAIN.

I've got around 900ish TB total, but only 300ish is original, the other 600ish is 2 back ups. Get on my level or get off my Sup Forums

...

Do you have any friends?

no but I got 100tb of porn come at me bro

Yeah I will definitely do that. I'm fucking sick of this happening. Will buy 2 4TB hdds soon, one for storage and the other for backup mirroring.

just go buy a cheap external case and pop your drive into it

no i meant take the drive out and swap it, not open it

the harddrive recently crashed in my laptop. lost a lot of data. i feel your pain brother. ive been booting linx off of a thumb drive the past week

I pity you

100tb is a lot do you have a home server or something?

moron

Depending on type, take it out of case and install internally, hopefully only the shitty little external connected is fucked

why, anything wrong with that idea?

as I said, I did that already. doesn't have sata, only usb.

So you've taken the plastic case off the external hdd and there's just a usb coming straight out of the hdd? Sounds like you're fucked

Muhammed” received just 180 hours (22 days) of community service last year after he was prosecuted for attacking and brutally raping a 12 year old girl. Aged 18 at the time of his conviction, now the rapist’s friends and family are exacting revenge upon his victim, prolonging her trauma.

Now 13, ‘Ida’ has told local Swedish paper Sundsvalls Tidning about her most recent ordeal. Two brothers of the rapist go to her school, from which she has had to be withdrawn. Now five or six times she has been attacked by the men and their friends in public, at the local shops and around the neighbourhood.

The most serious attack took place on March 24th, when she was discovered at a bus stop by the brothers. One of them pushed her down, while the other punched her in the mouth. Upon seeing the mother of the boys approaching, Ida told the paper: “I thought she would stop them. But she kicked me”.

The young girl was admitted to hospital with a head injury and two loose teeth. The police have been notified, but in defiance of the report the girl has been told she will be beaten six more times.

Now she says “I dare not go outside”, because friends of her rapist will telephone the brothers if they see her in town.

Speaking to the local paper, the chief of local police has urged the girl to get in touch “as soon as something happens”. He also suggests “it’s good to keep a diary” of incidents should the events ever go to trial.

Ida had only turned 12 in the same month she was lured back to ‘Muhammed’s’ flat under false pretences for the first attack. When he had her alone, the man tore off her clothes and held his hand over her mouth while he raped her. A FriaTider report from the time states as he raped the young girl, he repeatedly told her “black dick is expensive”.

The attack left the girl “bleeding heavily” and with psychological problems. ‘
Take out the intact disks and put them in a new case.

Well I'm going to throw that thing into the garbage now, thanks for the help guys

yeah it only has a usb board attached. Will throw that piece of shit away now.

Bad luck man, at least u have an excuse to download loads of porn to fill the next hdd up

get a solid state drive dumbass

ssd > hdd
didnt you fucking say you had years of experience? fuckin' neet

Did you try access it using a different source? Like Ubuntu? I remember when my hard drive died and Windows could no longer read from it but when I tried it with Ubunut, it worked.

way too expensive for me. The speed is nice but I hate that they have limited amount of write cycles. I use a small one for my operating system, but I wouldn't use it for storage.

I think I will be relatively safe with one hdd for storage and one for backup.

anyone know of a cheap place to get an internal SSD online? trying to find something in the 500 gig range thats not gonna cost me 150 dollars

Try freezer overnight

If this isn't bait then OP is too dumb to be asking questions online if he can't even follow some of the simplest instructions posted and keeps countering with stupid replies.

you could always follow the traces and solder on a temp cable to try to pull the data off... also you could see if those pins on the left transmit data and see if you could mount a sata or usb to that and get it off like that... otherwise best bet is to buy like 10 of the same drive and remove the controller boards from them and try to connect them to that one... but remember each is calibrated slightly differently so it might not work...

I suggest if it has porn and shit on it, it's better to destroy it first

why are you not streaming porn like the rest of the world??? do you have like budget internet??? is jamal hand delivering your packets to and from web pages???

you could be trying to plug it into the wrong port. Try an ehternet port.

>buying external HDDs

Because I like to archive stuff. I have fast internet but I like the idea of not being dependant of an internet connection all the time.

thats why i store everything in the old wank bank in my head...

how about I try your butthole port