Ok so I got a new video card and Power Supply (BTW Logan if you are reading it is 80plus I took your advice). Anyway while I was installing the drivers I still had the PC open. I had to move the hard drive because the power cord to it looked like it might give whilst doing so I shocked my hard drive. It went to the blue screen of death and then shut down. If I try to boot with the hard drive it says that it cannot find it or it has been damaged. It doesn't show up in the bios like my secondary storage hard drive does. I don't want to try the freezer method as I heard it can cause condensation, but I need this fixed as I had a lot of important files on that hard drive. If you know any ways I could get it to work that would be awesome I am also willing to pay up to 200 U.S. dollars to get it repaired by someone.
If you can hear it spin up when you put power to it, then you should be able to pull the files off of it with a sata to usb adapter... assuming it's a sata drive >.>
If you can't hear it spin up, then I can't help you (mainly because I'm not that knowledgeable on completely fried HDDs.) I know hindsight is 20/20, but always back up your files.
I already checked the sound thing and no sound. It is sata. (Just to help everyone else trying to help)
If its not spinning then its pretty much broke, i had a HDD that did this a while back and i just took it out and knocked it on the top (like nocking a door with your knuckles) it came back to life for about 3 weeks then died lol.
just incase try reseting CMOS after completely removing and reseating the drive and cables (use a different power connection if possible) to see if it come back. Either way a non spinning drive is nearly impossible to recover.
K well first of all I am moving this thread to the inbox.exe part of the forums (For a bit more help???) anyway... I am buying a new hard drive once I get 60 dollars and then I will just copy the files over (If what you did works)
Take the drive to the range and drive a couple of 30 caliber bullets threw it.
Could try the 'knock' technique or perhaps a 'single' 1 inch vertical drop onto a solid, flat surface. Many drives are somewhat quiet, but you should be able to hear it spin up after applying the power cable. If you're not so tech sound sensitive, then you might wanna put your ear a tad closer in a quiet room.
Use it as a coaster.
heh, in HS when a floppy would die we'd disassemble and use the platter as a christmas tree ornament! Needless to say we had alot because we used them alot in computer class and for homework.
Freeze it inside a bag. Use external case for the drive while its still freezing cold. Plug it in and copy as much as you can if you can. If that wont work data recovery is expensive but there are many places that do it just dont hold your breath that it will all be recoverable.
Best of luck. My advice for imprtant files that are smallish in size backup to a cloud based means (google drive or the like) or email them to youself.