Help: Hard Drive Advice, Anyone?

[thefourthvine]

This household was recently the epicenter of a small but potent technical disaster shockwave. Or I suppose it would be more accurate to say I was the epicenter. For 24 hours, everything I touched broke. Everything. Even the Wonderfalls disc we got from Netflix wouldn't play, and all I did to that was open the envelope

Comments

[ramble_corner]

random commenter here..
but i think if it's just the connector, you could change the casing for your hard disk drive..
i mean you obviously didn't open the casing when you saw the bent connector right? If so changing the should enable you to get your data again.. ^_^. Although you may want to confirm first on that diagnosis before you forked out money to change the casing XD

[qe2]

Uff da, what a mess.

FWIW, I think ramble_corner's right. I had precisely this problem with my External Brain at the beginning of last year. I took it to the IT people at TLSTMNBN, who very kindly (1) diagnosed the problem, (2) imaged my hard drive onto one of their spare computers so that I wouldn't have to worry about the contents going kaboom, and (3) told me what to buy to replace the fritzled bit. When I duly did that and brought it back to them, they (4) installed the drive itself in the new case, and I was, hey presto, good to go.

Do either you or the BB have access to a handy school- or work-related IT company?

[lilacsigil]

My boss. With a butter knife. "Fixing" the fax. That'll do it! We had to replace a $260 fax, because he damaged it so badly - when poking the connectors out of shape didn't work, he went to work on the paper feeds and the slots where the ink cartridges go!

[lilacsigil]

Most computer repair shops should be able to at least get the data off, or just replace the connector (or the case, depending on the type of case you have - some are built in). And hard drives are much tougher than they used to be - have hope!

[jamjar]

Randomly, I like your icon. Where's it from?

[geeklite]

It's entirely possible that you could just get a new case for your hard drive. They're pretty easy to find - I picked up one for around $20 - it's a powered USB case, and I just dropped in the hard drive out of my old computer - quite easy to do. If you don't feel confident in doing that, or feel it might be a bit more complicated, best to get a professional geek to look at it.

[dzurlady]

Eeep! *hugs*