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1It would appear the hard drive was damaged by the impact. Put the drive in a different computer if you can to see.– anonCommented Feb 6, 2021 at 16:53
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2What is your question here? It seems obvious from your testing the impact had a negative effect on the drive and it is now defective, but I am not sure what your question is, suggestions to do what exactly?– acejavelinCommented Feb 6, 2021 at 16:58
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1@Sam - You would have to open the drive. If you did that without having the tool and knowledge to repair the drive outside of the proper environment, you would do more damage. If the drive is worth repairing ($) send it to a specialist. There are no guarantees in data recovery. It sounds like the drive is dead. It doesn't help now but proper backups are really important to have especially if you are on a deadline– RamhoundCommented Feb 6, 2021 at 17:06
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1Best guess - you had a head crash… the heads hit the spinning platters in the drive. this might have been prevented had you dropped the laptop on the phone, as drop sensors would have retracted the heads. What you have now is a drive that can only be recovered (even if only in part) by professional data recovery. Your urgency needs to be weighed against the value of the data. There is no other consideration. If you have to have it fast, then you should have set off driving an hour ago.– TetsujinCommented Feb 6, 2021 at 17:43
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1Platter damage cannot always be heard. I lost a large drive a couple of years ago from some sort of platter damage. Not recoverable. No noise. I have since switched to SSD drives for better reliability.– anonCommented Feb 6, 2021 at 21:09
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