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What appears to be clear, the drive does not work anywhere, is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of the cost to recover.

There are user recover tools (Recuva, SpinRite, and others) but use of these may make later recovery more difficult.

What appears to be clear, the drive does not work anywhere, is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of the cost to recover.

There are user recover tools (Recuva, SpinRite, and others) but use of these may make later recovery more difficult.

Assuming you need to replace the drive, replace it with an SSD drive for better reliability overall.

What appears to be clear, the drive does not work anywhere, is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of the cost to recover.

What appears to be clear, the drive does not work anywhere, is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of the cost to recover.

There are user recover tools (Recuva, SpinRite, and others) but use of these may make later recovery more difficult.

What appears to be clear (drive does not work anywhere) is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now, is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of cost to recover.

What appears to be clear, the drive does not work anywhere, is that the drive was damaged by the impact.

The most likely hope now is to take the drive to a local recovery agency to see if they can recover data. They need to give you an estimate and you need to determine how much the data is worth.

I suggest not trying to recover the drive yourself before you get an assessment of the cost to recover.