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Old 10-07-2011, 08:25 PM  
tedwinters
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Originally Posted by JP-pornshooter View Post
ok so i dropped one of my 1.5TB external drives on the floor.
i can hear it turns on but the hdd doesnt "load" just kinda sits there.
it sounds as if the coil got bumped off the plates basically.
any recommendations for recovery?
you're screwed - driveheads are out of sync.
No software will fix it - your only option is to pay a recovery service to remove the platters and pull the data off them....
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