Hello everyone,
I had my external drive plugged in on my laptop and bumped into the table and the hdd fell, didn't think it was damaged and left it plugged in for some hour or so.
After that I unplugged it and connected it to a different laptop, the first time it was extremely slow opening the folders but I managed to get through 15min~ of an episode of top gear until it stopped. After that it gives an error when I plug the disk in. And can't open it.
How should I go about this in order to save the most data possible?
Thanks in advance.
Copy pasta that shit off the external on to either another external or an regular hard-drive.
If you plug it in can you hear a clicking sound? If so that means the drive is for sure damaged. (if you don't it could still be damaged, clicking is just a telltale sign)
Need to get a new HDD to save the data
I don't hear clicking sounds but the disk is really slow and sometimes I can't access it.
Don't use the drive until you can get everything off of it or else you risk getting nothing off of it. If the drive becomes unreadable use Testdisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk to get everything off of it. Works like a charm every time. Seriously, please do not use the disk until you can get everything off of it.
Will only plug it in when I have the other disk to transfer everything.