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

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[anonymous]

All I know is that nothing is lost. I have aquainances who work with data retrieval and have seen burned, melted wet harddrives at their place that they managed to save all data from. In the worst case scenario you could probably get the same service close to where you live.

[elke_tanzer]

Sounds like it's quite possible it's just the connector, in which case the data is there, you just can't get to it until you fix or replace the connector. Depending on what case style you have, you may have to replace to whole case, or just the connector. If you've never done anything like that before it might be a good idea to bribe a friend with dinner or take it to a professional geek to have the drive put into a new case.

[pun]

I had the same problem with my external hard drive, and my brother-in-law got me this type of hard drive enclosure to put it into. It works very well.

[prettyshiny]

I can offer a bit of Radio Electronics Snack employee advice...

Until you can replace the case/have the techs at CompUSA/Geek Squad/your local computer place do it, you can try taking a pair of needle-nose pliers and very carefully bending it back. Go slowly, so you'll be less likely to break it. And remember, you and those pliers will easily generate more torque than that little connector thingie can resist. If you break it, no biggie, because that's only part of the case, and even if you manage to bend it back, I'd still suggest looking into replacing the connector or case anyhow, because it will be notably weaker and more prone to breaking off entirely now that the stress has been put on it.

[jackiekjono]

You know, I was just going to express condolences at the dead hard drive but, Dang!

You know some smart people.