just thought id check if something was jammed......
obviously its far more complex than fixing a playstation.

Yeah the drive weighs 675grms and the case wouldnt weigh more than 100gms.

maybe ill try the warranty.

Warranty ?????

Didnt you drop the drive yourself? So why should this be covered by a warranty?


When you crash your car - is a repair covered by a warranty? Never ...

Why should it work with harddisks?



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I didn't realise the disk was encased in something else - this would give you two or three different impacts... Anyway, with all this flying about, amongst other things, it is possible that the head stack got dislodged from the parked position and went scratching all over the platters probably damaging the heads and/or pulling them off the gimbals in the process. Most likely the disk is fubar-ed, if the data is not worth the recovery fee, put it down to the experience and invest in a new disk, there's nothing you can do yourself here.

Hope that Seagate don't read this forum

Yeah I dropped the drive, but if its possibly under the 350 gs shock rating that voids the warranty (which I cant measure myself) I might as well try.

I assembled my own external drive so thats the case im refering to.

Ive dropped similar external drives from 3 ft+ and they have still lived strong to this day.

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