Today......was the worst EVER. I've been going to the gym lately.....I mean I was spending 2 hours a day....everyday and it came to the point where my point was screaming "Please give me a REST!!". Hence, I did today, my body became somewhat clumsy because my muscles where sore and stuff. Anyways, at about 4pm today, when I was about to go upstairs so that I wash my face, my foot tripped over my 500GB's power lead, which sent my external HDD into the wooden floor with a slight bang.....the drop I think was just over a feet. I quickly connected my HDD back to my laptop and everything seemed fine, as I was able to check through the many files I had on my External HDD and so I thought how about I restart my laptop.
I restarted my laptop and my SUMOdisk 500GB external HDD started this lousy clicking sound and basically it ceased to connect to my laptop or any other computers..........it would just make that DAMNED Clicking sound. So now, I'm left with an unconnected HDD and unable to retrieve my files and I DO NO want to think about the fact that I might never be able to get them back.
I did some googling and it seems the reason for the clicking sound is that the seeking mechanism has failed somehow due to damage most likely...........OK.......I'm noob so I've got no clue what it really means but its the reason why it won't connect to my laptop and for the clicking sound. Also, it DOES NOT give me the "USB Unrecognized" warning, which is worrying me because apparently it should come when I connect it to my laptop or my other computers.
The thing is I have 5 External HDDs but this particular HDD was the one where I used more often as I put my old files and stuff in the other HDDs. All of my HDDs are fulled to the brim except my new 1.5TB External HDD, which I was going to use to take all the files on the SumoDisk HDD (the one that seems to be broken) and put them in it.
I wish I had done this fre@king transfer earlier..........I am at a lost and I don't know of any convenient way of recovering my data.
My data contains mostly of my lectures, essays, pictures, recent manga and anime downloads, movies, old back-ups from my computers, C77 stuff........basically the data that seems to be lost is very valuable to me.
Most of the data can be attained again if I knew what it was but the problem is I don't know everything but I am able to list the ones I remember. This REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks.
Can someone help me ??
This pretty much sums up my day......I feel like shattered glass and feel unable to join myself together again.
EDIT:
I did even more browsing by doing a couple rephrasing on google and found some stuff that seemed useful: -
1.) http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/03/26/dama...re-and-service/
2.) http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
3.) http://www.r-studio.com/
However, whilst surfing I came across this site: -
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cf...05481&forumid=1
One particular member said these words: -
QUOTE I doubt whether much of your data remains on the disk. The initial fall would have caused local damage to the disk and probably the disk read mechanism. Each time it was run after that the damage would have spread, effectively destroying the disk surface.
When I read that....I felt sick........the thing is I've tried to mount my HDD on my computer multiple times since the fall and thats about 10 or more times I've started it up and stuff.
Does that mean, I have effectively destroyed any hope of recovering or at least being able to find what I had on that HDD.
Why on earth are HDDs soooooooooooo damn delicate.
Guys.......I really really NEED your help.
I restarted my laptop and my SUMOdisk 500GB external HDD started this lousy clicking sound and basically it ceased to connect to my laptop or any other computers..........it would just make that DAMNED Clicking sound. So now, I'm left with an unconnected HDD and unable to retrieve my files and I DO NO want to think about the fact that I might never be able to get them back.
I did some googling and it seems the reason for the clicking sound is that the seeking mechanism has failed somehow due to damage most likely...........OK.......I'm noob so I've got no clue what it really means but its the reason why it won't connect to my laptop and for the clicking sound. Also, it DOES NOT give me the "USB Unrecognized" warning, which is worrying me because apparently it should come when I connect it to my laptop or my other computers.
The thing is I have 5 External HDDs but this particular HDD was the one where I used more often as I put my old files and stuff in the other HDDs. All of my HDDs are fulled to the brim except my new 1.5TB External HDD, which I was going to use to take all the files on the SumoDisk HDD (the one that seems to be broken) and put them in it.
My data contains mostly of my lectures, essays, pictures, recent manga and anime downloads, movies, old back-ups from my computers, C77 stuff........basically the data that seems to be lost is very valuable to me.
Most of the data can be attained again if I knew what it was but the problem is I don't know everything but I am able to list the ones I remember. This REALLY REALLY REALLY sucks.
Can someone help me ??
This pretty much sums up my day......I feel like shattered glass and feel unable to join myself together again.
EDIT:
I did even more browsing by doing a couple rephrasing on google and found some stuff that seemed useful: -
1.) http://www.geckoandfly.com/2009/03/26/dama...re-and-service/
2.) http://www.data-recovery-software.net/
3.) http://www.r-studio.com/
However, whilst surfing I came across this site: -
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/forums/index.cf...05481&forumid=1
One particular member said these words: -
QUOTE I doubt whether much of your data remains on the disk. The initial fall would have caused local damage to the disk and probably the disk read mechanism. Each time it was run after that the damage would have spread, effectively destroying the disk surface.
When I read that....I felt sick........the thing is I've tried to mount my HDD on my computer multiple times since the fall and thats about 10 or more times I've started it up and stuff.
Why on earth are HDDs soooooooooooo damn delicate.
Guys.......I really really NEED your help.