Knocked my full 1tb to the ground, any tips to save some of the data?

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Well, it's been a week since I stumbled over the wire of my 1 year old 1TB WD External HDD pulling it off my desk onto carpeted floor - and now I've had time to cool and realize its just a HDD with 1tb worth of stuff from the last 5 years on, and there is more to life than this.... although I'm over my stupid mistake - is there any tips to get some important files off? or even possibly save it completely.

I can start it up, hear the fan go round, see my files in finder, but cannot go too deep into them. I can get small files off as it 'clicks' away randomly. but then just freezes Finder on my Mac.

I've read to put it in the freezer to give it a good 10 minutes of time to copy stuff off it?

I'm thinking as a last resort I'll bang it again, you never know it might decide to work them :(

The drop wasn't huge, and landed on a carpet floor, i guess it was just enough to knock something !

any tips or tricks would be greatly appreciated.
 
I'd open it up :) But I like doing that..

Just to check to see if anything physically looks broken.. If so you can buy parts for repairs or salvage the disk and re mount elsewhere.

I don't know how Mac's are with data recovery. But there are plenty of suites out there for windows.. Necleus being the one I remember..
 
:s that's what i meant.

Open the casing, and check the cable links - don't see how it could cause the drive to be intermittent but never know.

Maybe run some HDD test utils? Check for bad sectors etc. :)
 
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