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Dropped my external hard drive! Can it be saved??

All of my back up files and videos are gone...........

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Can you travel back in time?

  • 1 decade ago

    For about 10k yea, they probably can.

    If you have access to a clean room environment and a duplicate hard drive of the EXACT model, then yes probably.

    If not, then um no. They are gone. Unless you want to pay someone to do this, it will cost around 10k

  • 1 decade ago

    YES you can

    But what you have to do is take is appart then remove the 1 or 2 disks from inside open another similar or identical drive and replace the disks.

    this can be very risky and you have to make sure that you don't damage the disks in any way.

    if you wish to have it professionaly done then take it to a computer repair centre and they should be able to do it for you.

    Good Luck :-)

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  • 1 decade ago

    If it wont even run properly when plugged into your computer,yes its all gone.

    What may have happened is you may have messed up or broke the parts in side the drive,if its still under warenty you better hope that they cover that kind of damage.

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  • Nomadd
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Maybe. You can take the hard drive out of the case and plug it into another case or right into the computer. The drive itself might be OK.

  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry but no

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