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y2j514 · 12-19-2008, 10:50 AM

Ok so I was using my Maxtor OneTouch Plus 4 1 TB HDD the other day. I was transferring something from my laptop to it when I accidently moved and knocked it to the ground. It fell about 4 feet and there was no visible damage to the harddrive.

However, after that it refuses to work. I don't even hear it spin up. I opened up the enclosure and used another SATA HDD in the enclosure and that works fine. So I know the problem is with the HDD.

I plugged the HDD directly into my desktop computer and when i go into diskmgmt.msc it sees a harddrive, but it says it is not initialized, I try to initialize it says its write protected.

In bios it can't even detect how many heads or cylinders or the size of the HDD. Im wondering is the HDD ok, and it just needs to be initialized somehow or is the HDD dead due to it falling.

Another thing I was thinking is, if I buy a Seagate 40GB sata HDD, could I potentially open up the harddrives and swap the plates or whatever they are called (the round c/d looking things inside the dvd that are like a mirror) and retrieve my data that way?

Thanks for any help in advance,
Jeff

12-19-2008, 10:50 AM	#1 (permalink)
y2j514 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 3 OS: 32-bit Vista Ultimate	Replacing the "plates" inside the HDD Ok so I was using my Maxtor OneTouch Plus 4 1 TB HDD the other day. I was transferring something from my laptop to it when I accidently moved and knocked it to the ground. It fell about 4 feet and there was no visible damage to the harddrive. However, after that it refuses to work. I don't even hear it spin up. I opened up the enclosure and used another SATA HDD in the enclosure and that works fine. So I know the problem is with the HDD. I plugged the HDD directly into my desktop computer and when i go into diskmgmt.msc it sees a harddrive, but it says it is not initialized, I try to initialize it says its write protected. In bios it can't even detect how many heads or cylinders or the size of the HDD. Im wondering is the HDD ok, and it just needs to be initialized somehow or is the HDD dead due to it falling. Another thing I was thinking is, if I buy a Seagate 40GB sata HDD, could I potentially open up the harddrives and swap the plates or whatever they are called (the round c/d looking things inside the dvd that are like a mirror) and retrieve my data that way? Thanks for any help in advance, Jeff