Hey!

So I had an Xbox 360 and just a couple weeks ago, I dropped it going down the stairs. The entire Xbox broke. So anyways, I bought a Xbox 360 Slim the other day and I wanted to see if I can transfer some of my old stuff to my new Slim Hard drive. I did not know if the old Hard Drive was damaged or not.

Anyways I opened up my old Xbox 360 casing and took out actual hard drive. I plugged it in to my computer via SATA and I powered it but, the hard drive did not show up on my computer. I plugged in my Slim Hard Drive and it showed up.

My old hard drive was also making these wierd noises like it was trying to boot up or something. I made a recording. The drive keeps making the same noise over and over but after 30 seconds or so, the noise stops.

Recording:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7442061/broken.wav

My question is:
Does the hard drive sound broken from the recording?
If so, can I fix it (Maybe its the circuit board).

Thanks

The answer is :
YES it is BADLY broken,
and
NO, YOU can't fix it. Someone else, maybe, but I have the feeling you don't want to spend hundreds of $ on it, do you ?

Your drive sounds badly broken, head/heads damaged and scratches on media .
Powering on the drive after it had been dropped , degraded the drive further.
You cant fix it yourself, sorry, this is not DIY case(your PCB/Circuit board is fine).
Recovery will be costly and you will need DR pro help.
IF data is not important , trash it and forget it.

I don't really care about the data on it. Just going to trash it. Thanks for your help