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Originally Posted by Compumaniac12
well ill stick it back in tonight and run some diagnostics on it. It shouldntve broken that quickly, i mayve not been an angel carrying it around but the thing is armored by 2mm of metal...
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so you think that the armor plating will protect do you?
the internals of a disk drive are equivalent to an egg, put an egg in a metal box and throw it around!
laptop drives are different but they're built differently expecting to be caried carefully with the occasional hard knock. Desktop drives are built to be put inside units that don't move and migh get the very occasional knowck
when not powered the head tends to be put in park position but can move across the disk surface when knocked. Whenthe drive is in use the head sits above a high speed spinning surface which creates an air cushion under the head and prevents the two surfaces from making contact. similar in principle to the wings of an aircraft.
when the drive is not spinning the aisr cushion is gone and there is no protection at all which means that you will be leaving marks across your drive.
I'd suggest, now that the truth has come out, that you try HDD regenerator which might be able to recover a little bit of your drive.
http://www.tomdownload.com/utilities...egenerator.htm
Stop carrying it around unless you have some means to absorb shocks before the shock hits the drive.