Huge Prob With SATA 300GB Seagate Drive

[SE14man]

Hi,

I left home this morning for college.
Got home to find my SATA drive was not seen in windows.
My Mum was vacuuming around the area and knocked the drive onto the bottom of the PC which i think caused the circuit board to completely blow.
There is no power going to the drive now and it is no longer warm with the PC on.

The important thing is will i sitll have ALL my datao n there intact and in perfect conidition?

Everything on that drive is so important, would replacing the circuit board be the answer?

Cheers people.

[harley2ride]

If the head didn't crash while the drive was spinning, your data could all still be intact. If your data is really that important, I wouldn't play around. I would sent it to a recovery service. Also learn from this, and buy a nice big external drive to use for regular backups.

[ROF]

Also learn from this, and buy a nice big external drive to use for regular backups.

Another lesson would be to at a minimum use at least two screws to hold any drive inside a tower. One might do, two is better, four is optimal.

[SE14man]

Is there any software that would check that my data is still intact?

Cheers.

[ROF]

Not if the drive motor is short circuited as it sounds. You could possibly recover data by exchanging the platters with a similiar drive and use those electronics to gain access. At the cost for another 300GB Sata you may want to consider professional recovery assistance.

Live and Learn. There are reasons why drive bays have anchor slots.

[lenti_75]

Not if the drive motor is short circuited as it sounds. You could possibly recover data by exchanging the platters with a similiar drive and use those electronics to gain access. At the cost for another 300GB Sata you may want to consider professional recovery assistance.

Live and Learn. There are reasons why drive bays have anchor slots.

professional recovery is expensive...$100 won't make for the whole drive recovery....

if your're good with electronics, buy another one identical, and switch the board, if it works, saved to $$$$$ if not, then you have to open it completly and change the plates.

if not, then pay big bucks for a professional recovery.

how could you leave that drive floating around ????

[pcbman]

Taking a drive apart and trying to swap platters isn't a "home" operation unless you got a clean room. Considering the WD drives flying head floats about 3-7 "billionths" of an inch above the platter and the avg. dust particle is over 1 thousanth of an inch thick, your talking major head crash if anything when you break the seals on a HD and contaminate the inside.
Best bet is swappin the electronics if your lucky, if not, chalk it up to experience and cry imho. Sorry

[pcbman]

correction. I said Billionths, its Millionths of an inch but thas splitting hairs, sorry