Dropped Your External Hard Drive and Now It’s Not Mounting?
The sensitivity of a mechanical hard drive is always underestimated. The thought of dropping a drive might not be a big deal from a user’s standpoint but from a Data Recovery Professional’s standpoint, it’s one of the biggest mistakes one can do. Losing your precious data or not having the ability to access it is not only inconvenient, but also heartbreaking. If you have dropped your drive, then chances are your drive will have issues whether you experience it now or later. What is the best advice from a Data Recovery professional? DO NOT attempt to repair or recover your own drive. You can decrease your chances of recovery by creating more damage to the drive without knowing you are.
Is your drive making clicking sounds after your drop?
When powering on your drive after a drop, does the drive make clicking sounds? If so, chances are that the physical drop has possibly damaged the read/write heads located inside the drive. The read/write head hovers over a hard drive’s platters and quickly scans across a platter either adding data to the platter or reading from it. Essentially, the read/write heads are very important in the body of a hard drive. With that being said, if the heads are bad then they would need to be replaced with a compatible donor that matches specific specifications from the original read/write heads. Once the donor is found and replaced in a Clean Room facility, then the data recovery engineer begins the recovery if the match is successful. Still then chances are never guaranteed. Nevertheless, if you are hearing clicking sounds after a drop, then make sure you STOP what you are doing and bring it in to a professional for a diagnosis.
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