the hard drive was connected up to my computer
and someone went by and knocked it over and it fell of the stand not high up at all.

the hard drive is seen in the bios and get databack see the drive and picks up the drive name right away.
but when you try to read the tree of the files
it comes up zero error read error nothing else


the program can see the correct name and the gig amount of the hard drive
which is a 1tb
but the label name is corrupted

there is no scratching noise coming from the hard drive
so i dont think its damaged.

any advice on this one guys

it got around 900 dvd rips on it
that i just done.

so i dont fancy redoing them all again

1) is this a headstack damaged

2) could it be a firmware corruption

3) or possible faulty pc board

by bet is that the firmware got corrupt or the service area

thanks all

Probably physical damage to the platters which could well include the service tracks.

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hi if there was physical damage to the platter of services area
would i not hear a scratching noise from the headstack touching the platters.


thanks

Probably not, if the damage is slight.

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Ill vote SA damage. Need a PC3K to check.

Very unlikely for SA to develop fault after a fall. Maybe alignment is modified which happens after this type of action. ether way, professional diagnosis is needed to confirm this, or identify the actual failures, which I expect will be physical failures.

Unable to see the structure - MFT is sitting at bads. But recovery soft should still pass through. It might be dangerous, but u can try to surface scan the drive with MHDD. Start from the mid of the drive for example. If all is good - try bit copy onto another drive and dig in with data recovery soft. The only problem is that in the event of bad/failing heads surface scan is pretty brutal test.

ok update on this drive very weird problem

did mhdd scan it finds errors red blocks stops then starts again and then goes all the way
throu the hard drive
its finding errors and fixing them.

tried some other software getdata back and it see the drive no problem correct everything.
but when it does a scan it does not pickup any of the mft structure at all
allso notice some corrupted names displayed in like the following $fzc[]'46tp


any other ideas what this might be.

encrypted?

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Is the disk partioned into FAT32?

If the drive is from a WD My Book product, the USB interface PCB may contain an on-the-fly encryption circuit. Try reading the drive using the adapter.

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hi no the hard drive case is buffalo drive station.
that connects up to western digital media player.

i check what the file system was.



http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/r ... d-Drive/p1

no its not encrypted at all.


thanks