Internal hard drive no longer being recognized

[saint_hades]

3.  Only?  Isn't that  enough?  It's analogous to your neck being broken, but the brain still functions?

If the brain still works then I would be able to get that brain and put in someone else, right? (put it on a different hard drive)

[Computer_Commando]

Yes, it's possible, if you have the skill of  Dr. Frankenstein.
There are business that perform this service, but it will probably cost close to $1000.

Google "hard drive recovery service".

[saint_hades]

Okay thanks

But what I want to know is why did the drive break today?
Do you think it was going to break anyway, and that me moving my computer was just a weird coincident that is broke when I did.
Or do you think I might have knocked a wire when I was cleaning the inside of my computer.

[Computer_Commando]

1.  But what I want to know is why did the drive break today?
2.  Do you think it was going to break anyway, and that me moving my computer was just a weird coincident that is broke when I did.
3.  Or do you think I might have knocked a wire when I was cleaning the inside of my computer.

1.  Connector shell was probably mostly broken and finally fell apart.
2.  Could be.
3.  Something overstressed it sometime in the past or today.  You have to pull on the wire pretty hard to break it like that.  Could have happened when it was being built.  They are not that fragile.

Pull the drive out and look at the remaining connector, then you tell me how hard it is to break it.

[saint_hades]

Well, I'm not going to break the drive any more sorry.

The strange thing, I've never taken the cable off that drive until today. So it's been plugged in for around 2 years.

Thanks for you help, I know a computer technician who's going to look at it. So I'll tell you how it goes.

Cheers
 

[patio]

It's possible to go on a site such as eBay and look for a controller assembly for that drive and be able to swap it in there to retrieve the data...
Problem is the controller has to be from not only an identical drive but also from the same batch/lot production run for this to work...

Probability of success ....approx 14%.