So I have this Western Digital 2 TB SATA HDD (Model Number: WD20EARX-32PASB0) formatted to FAT32, it was an external hard drive, but it was dropped from... let's say "a significant height" in it's enclosure. Well when I plugged it up, the light came on, i could hear it spinning, then it started spinning very fast. Then it stopped and it was not recognized by the OS (Android). So I thought maybe if I removed it from it's enclosure, I could get something to recognize it. So I try booting up a Windows machine (mind you this HD has no OS on it, only data) and it's not popping up at all. So I tried reading it in Linux, this time it spins up, but doesn't stop spinning at this rapid rate that i have never heard prior to it being dropped, so I quickly shut down the PC to make it stop spinning.

So I'm out of ideas, and I am considering one of these Hard Drive repair services, but I have no idea if I can afford what some of them want to charge, and I don't know if the cheaper ones are effective and some seem really shady...

Please help!

Will be a nasty physical problem, so it won't be cheap.

Dunno about US prices, but in UK that would be an absolute minimum of £400-500, but almost certainly significantly more if there's platter damage.

Anyone offering anything cheaper is IMHO a scam to lure clients in.

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I agree with Sean, it sounds like nasty physical and it won't be cheap.

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