External Hard Drive Fell Down

As I was connecting My 4TB Seagate External Hard Drive to the comp, it fell down and I saw the bottom of the hard drive come loose. I fixed it again and then attached it to the comp but now it gets detected in Device Manager but the lights don’t come on and the hard drive disk letter doesn’t appear. Is it beyond repair?
Please advice.
Answer #1
Listen to the Hard drive..
Spinning?
Anny clicking?
Answer #2
There is no spinning sound, nor any clicking. I shook it and didn’t feel anything loose inside.
Answer #3
Try the drive in your PC..If it still no spinning then the HD is dead..
Answer #4
You will probably have to remove the drive from the enclosure. Inside you will find a controller (a small board that the hard drive plugs into) and the hard drive. The HD is connected to the controller.
– It could be just that the drive and the controller (also in the case) have pulled apart enough to stop the drive from getting power or be recognized by the controller
– since windows sees the device the controller appears to be fine And for goodness sake, stop shaking it. First it gets tossed around like a beach ball at a frat pool-party, and now you are pretending to shake up a martini with it? lol but seriously, shaking is not helpful.
Answer #5
- It could be just that the drive and the controller (also in the case) have pulled apart enough to stop the drive from getting power or be recognized by the controller - since windows sees the device the controller appears to be fine Came to nearly the same conclusion – , and about shaking the hard drive, read that advice after googling. I won’t be opening it up, just will call the company to send their person to repair it. Thanks – and .
Answer #6
The cost of repair might be more than buying a new one; keep that in mind. The Seagate 4T is only $150cdn new.
Answer #7
Repairing means also trying to recover the data, i.e. 5000 movies and documentaries and 10 ongoing serials.
Answer #8
Calling a repair man won’t get data recovery. Get your cheque book out. Recovering data from a dead drive (if it is dead) will cost $500+, if done on the cheap.
Answer #9
Repairing means also trying to recover the data, i.e. 5000 movies and documentaries and 10 ongoing serials.
As said before crack it open and hopefully it just came loose from the connecter. Never Never Never store your collection on an external hdd or even a single internal hdd in future. RAID6 is what you should be using since hdds are so cheap. Don’t go for a single huge hdd get 2 or 3 tb drives and connect them up to a cheapo HP P400 controller which can be found online for 20$ with 512mb of battery backed cache.
4x3tb in RAID6 gives 5.7TB of usable space add another hdd and you get 8.7TB ie it jumps rapidly after the initial investment.
If you arnt using RAID6 expect to lose your collection.