I NEED A TECH HEAD RIGHT NOWWWWWW

[Gramma NatZee]

my external hard drive has gone crazy =.=



well, it was working before like every other E-drive.


then some retard accidentally dropped it once... stepped on it, dragged it and kicked it a few times and now it wont work.


well heres what i've done so far.

i've re-formatted it and un-installed it cause it was really faulty and s**t so i had no choice but to do that.

now my problem is.

my system can recognize and install the hard drive but it wont allocate a drive letter x.x

i tried allocating a drive letter manually but the damn thing wont show up on disk management.


what doooo i doooo? x.x

i plan to recover the files after it... cause i'll somehow find a way but i cant do that if the damn thing doesnt even have a drive letter x.x


it takes a lot for me to say this to someone....

but could you please help?

[psychic stalker]

Gramma NatZee

then some retard accidentally dropped it once... stepped on it, dragged it and kicked it a few times and now it wont work.

Well, gee. I wonder why.

Gramma NatZee

what doooo i doooo? x.x

Replace it.

Gramma NatZee

i plan to recover the files after it... cause i'll somehow find a way but i cant do that if the damn thing doesnt even have a drive letter x.x

... Because it's broken and it'll require expensive equipment and a team of engineers to extract the data bit by bit. No less than $1,000, and there's no guarantee that you'll get any data back.

You kick a hard drive, and it's going to ******** up. It's a mechanical device and mechanical stress will break things. And you can't undo the damage that will be caused.

[neodraconum]

is it a small external drive or a regular size drive?
What OS do you have?
how did you format it?

I would take it out of the enclosurer and attach it as a internal hard drive. Then I would see if it can connect. Sometimes the small chips for the external hard drive are damaged or the cable is broken or loose.

[Gramma NatZee]

neodraconum

is it a small external drive or a regular size drive?
What OS do you have?
how did you format it?

I would take it out of the enclosurer and attach it as a internal hard drive. Then I would see if it can connect. Sometimes the small chips for the external hard drive are damaged or the cable is broken or loose.

idk what the size is, im not computer savvy. i guess its a small size?
1 tb
windows 7

format it...

i ran it into cmd

i think its because of windows 7, it seems like lots of others are having the same prob with me.

[Gramma NatZee]

psychic stalker

Gramma NatZee

then some retard accidentally dropped it once... stepped on it, dragged it and kicked it a few times and now it wont work.

Well, gee. I wonder why.

Gramma NatZee

what doooo i doooo? x.x

Replace it.

Gramma NatZee

i plan to recover the files after it... cause i'll somehow find a way but i cant do that if the damn thing doesnt even have a drive letter x.x

... Because it's broken and it'll require expensive equipment and a team of engineers to extract the data bit by bit. No less than $1,000, and there's no guarantee that you'll get any data back.

You kick a hard drive, and it's going to ******** up. It's a mechanical device and mechanical stress will break things. And you can't undo the damage that will be caused.

$1000 isnt even expensive.

compared to what was in the drive, that 1 grand is worth nothing >.<

[neodraconum]

$1000 is the start of it. $1000 is expensive when you could have prevented it by making a backup on another drive for $200 (cost of a 3TB drive)

I would check the disk 1st. If you could format it then you must have had a drive letter to format it.
you could "chkdsk /r (drive letter smile " to check the disk for damaged areas.

when I said size I meant actually physical size since some externals uses 1.5" drives like a laptop drive.

also does the drive make any noises?

[Gramma NatZee]

neodraconum

$1000 is the start of it. $1000 is expensive when you could have prevented it by making a backup on another drive for $200 (cost of a 3TB drive)

I would check the disk 1st. If you could format it then you must have had a drive letter to format it.
you could "chkdsk /r (drive letter smile " to check the disk for damaged areas.

when I said size I meant actually physical size since some externals uses 1.5" drives like a laptop drive.

also does the drive make any noises?

well, yah but im normally careful with my stuffs so it didnt occur to me that this would happen.

idrc if it costs me $20,000 as long as i get my stuffs back x.x

and yah i tried the chkdsk but the problem is there is no allocated disk letter for the damn thing x.x

ooh thats what u meant by the size o.o

well, idk what size it is... but its a product of thailand so i guess its small o.o


and yuh it does make noises. idk if thsi si agood thing or not but notmally it does make noises.

[Yuki the Third]

Can't unbreak an egg, can't fix a physically damaged hard drive. Sorry. also, sig's way over Gaia's limit for file size.

[Lanackse-Kanvae]

A hint I'd like to give is to never to do a topic title (or post, before you start that one) all in caps. That's the internet equivalent of shouting and apart from the topic title sounding damned arrogant (I hate to burst your rather large ego but the regs use their free time to help here and do have other things to do like paying jobs, family, eating, sleeping, taking a s**t, etc.), it just screams "I'm an arrogant arsehole and I don't want anyone to help me".

Unfortunately hard drives remain the most fragile part of the system and will remain so until SSDs become the norm and replace what we have now.

You should ALWAYS have at least one backup of your data as no business person or uni professor will accept "my hard drive bust" as an excuse to not provide the goods. This is a lesson best learnt sooner rather than later.

[Ai_Rock_Your_World]

all you gotta do is buy a similar one.

1) disassemble the broken one and the new one
2) put the storage chip into the new one
3) reassemble the new one and try it

(freeballing here, i fixed my broken port by taking it apart and super gluing the port back on tot he mother board.)