What's your level of expertise in electronics repair? Of course, anything you DIY is not covered by warranty repair, but dropping it prolly did that, too.
Unplug from power and PC, disassemble and visually inspect. If there's nothing obviously broken, the drive is probably dead-ish. (I say -ish because if the discs are valuable enough, there's almost always a way to retrieve the data. Cost just goes up exponentially.) OTOH, if there's physical damage to the board or connectors, it's possible an inexpensive USD-to-Hard Drive adaptor could get the drive working again. Your local big box store or "computer guy" would be willing to take a look at it, for a bench fee. On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Lew Schwartz <[email protected]> wrote: > My 2T Passport Ultra was dropped about 2.5 ft from tabletop to the floor. > Now it not only won't spin up, but if I try a few times, the machine I'm > mounting it on hangs. > I've written an email to WD, but there's no response. > > Trash it? Other ideas? > > > -Lew Schwartz > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4sZmjOT1z+K0KMDXeeu5puC5ULakCnfqfcRfTDjw6GJ=a...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
