Seagate expandable hard drive.

[Girgy85]

Mother broke mine. Has all my photos music and files on etc.

Sommink rattling around inside and the thingy where u plug the lead in that attaches to computer is brokened.

So is it repairable? and if not is it possible to recover all my data?

Cheers Girgy x

[kinboshi]

Depends.  If the actual glass drive has shattered/cracked, then you might be in trouble.

Sometimes though it's the power and cabling that goes, and if that's the case the actual drive can be placed into a computer or into another external casing and can work perfectly fine.  Other than that, sometimes the drive itself fails (the bit that makes it spin and reads the disc), and if that's the case then you might have to take it to a specialist who can sort that for you.

[titaniumbean]

It's going to cost money but via a specialist you normally have a good chance of at least getting some portion of your data back. If you run bad you will have lost it all.

Harddrives are the suck, harddrives are the only alternative. sigh. buy lots. back up each back up onto a back up that is backed up using other back up drives. then hope to fk they don't break.

[Marky147]

My Seagate 1tb went bang the other day and ironically I had been thinking about getting an external for my desk to transfer all the data too.

Obviously I hadn't and it stops working so I rang a data recovery company who said yeah should be fine to recover everything will cost about £300!!!

I have it under warranty and most of the stuff was just tv shows  and vids from vegas I have on my other pc anyway. I've just got a new drive on the way and kissed goodbye to the shows. If it's stuff that you really need then it's obv worth the money, if it's stuff that has no real sentimental value then it's just gg and get a new one

[paulhouk03]

My mate only uses his external hard drive to steal porn off other ppls pc and to stash his own collection
He is very proud of it.

[Rod Paradise]

If the socket for the USB lead is broken then it'd be worth buying another enclosure & trying out the drive in it. £20 to see if the drive's OK instead of £300 for professional recovery you might not need.

I got this one off Amazon when I managed to drop my external drive & it worked fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product

[Girgy85]

If the socket for the USB lead is broken then it'd be worth buying another enclosure & trying out the drive in it. £20 to see if the drive's OK instead of £300 for professional recovery you might not need.

I got this one off Amazon when I managed to drop my external drive & it worked fine: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001T6ZUW2/ref=oss_product

How do i get the case off the old one and transfer it over?

[rex008]

[Girgy85]

But inside is it tricky to get the drive out and install it into the new casing?

[rex008]

Depends how they've done it, but I can't imagine it would be. You don't even need a casing for these things, if you're ok with opening up your PC, you should be able to directly connect it (unless you've only got a laptop).

Alternatively (assuming it's a SATA drive internally, likely), get something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-CABLE-HDD-UK-POWER-ADAPTER-/190421557699?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item2c560261c3

All you need, really. Power and data. But probably best to open it up and see if the drive has been obviously damaged before you splash out. They're pretty rugged though. Depends if it was switched on when it was dropped. If it was, more likely to be borked.

[Girgy85]

Depends how they've done it, but I can't imagine it would be. You don't even need a casing for these things, if you're ok with opening up your PC, you should be able to directly connect it (unless you've only got a laptop).

Alternatively (assuming it's a SATA drive internally, likely), get something like this:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-CABLE-HDD-UK-POWER-ADAPTER-/190421557699?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item2c560261c3

All you need, really. Power and data. But probably best to open it up and see if the drive has been obviously damaged before you splash out. They're pretty rugged though. Depends if it was switched on when it was dropped. If it was, more likely to be borked.

Only run a laptop.

Dont think its been dropped just knocked as i twas on the floor so mama g prob knocked it with hoover or summet