Hard Drive Goes Clunk!

OldSkoolNub · 18 Oct 2009 at 21:58

Hi guys, got the rage today and hit my laptop so hard my hand is still throbbing! Anyhow, since then my computer wont boot at all and the hard drive makes a really loud clunking sound. Have i broke it, i assume so. If so will any of the data on it be recoverable?

Thanks in advance

Monkeynut · 18 Oct 2009 at 22:08

It's dead. You'll need a new HDD atleast.

Durzel · 18 Oct 2009 at 22:54

OldSkoolNub said:
Have i broke it, i assume so.

Let's see. It was working before you hit it, and it stopped working after you'd hit it.

Hmmmm someone help me join the dots please.

JonJ678 · 18 Oct 2009 at 23:07

It will be difficult to recover any data. Specifically it will be very expensive and has a low probability of complete success. The head will have hit the disk while it was spinning, gauged into it and torn itself apart. This is why you don't hit laptops.

The file you were working on is dead and gone. Realistically so is everything else on the drive. Hard drive dead.

Next up, if the laptop isn't posting (nothing on the screen at all), you've damaged more than just the hard drive. Can't tell you what else is dead without seeing it in person. Most likely you're buying a new laptop.

Only person I've ever met who has done this was a schoolkid who just wasn't very bright. He was fortunate and only needed a new hard drive.