I dropped my computer from 5 feet

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Morpheushasleftthebuilding

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i can replace the mainboard ,graphic card, ram, cpu, but not those hard disks with data.
anyone have a clue if those parked heads of a hd can survive a fall like that?:eek:
 

ThatOneDude

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Depending on how much you value the data on there, you can pay for companies to recover it. It'd try it yourself first
 

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I once used Pandora Recovery when I thought I lost a hardrive...ended up getting about 95% off of it.
 
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update: took out the seven harddisks and tested them on my laptop with a sata to usb cable and six hd's were good, one gave 0 bytes, dowloaded testdisk and rewrote the partition table and it was fixed, did not fire up my pc, lets see tomorrow
 

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update: took out the seven harddisks and tested them on my laptop with a sata to usb cable and six hd's were good, one gave 0 bytes, dowloaded testdisk and rewrote the partition table and it was fixed, did not fire up my pc, lets see tomorrow
The part of the harddrive where your OS is installed might be damaged, you can still install the OS on another HD and use it as storage, but expect some errors. Or you could take the information of it.
 
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The part of the harddrive where your OS is installed might be damaged, you can still install the OS on another HD and use it as storage, but expect some errors. Or you could take the information of it.
one hd is my total OS, i already copied important stuff :)
 

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i use a western digital black 640 gb, but only the first 30 gb part for OS
Ah, ok so 7 partitions? Sounds, like the HDD has some errors. I'd get a new one for your OS and then run diagnostics and error fix software on the other one. It might be recoverable, but the information on definitely is.
 
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Ah, ok so 7 partitions? Sounds, like the HDD has some errors. I'd get a new one for your OS and then run diagnostics and error fix software on the other one. It might be recoverable, but the information on definitely is.
no, 7 hd's, that's why is was spooked by dropping it, 7 hd's is some money and data:rolleyes:
 

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Fill them up with water. If any leaks out I'd presume they are fucked
 

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after replacing the cpu cooler and some plastic frame, its up and running again, i am surprised, the mainboard, cpu, ram, survived this drop
Well it is all bolted in place, so as long as nothing breaks off inside the case, it only has to deal with the jolt. Assuming the case doesn't just splinter apart. Still surprising though.
 

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after replacing the cpu cooler and some plastic frame, its up and running again, i am surprised, the mainboard, cpu, ram, survived this drop
Sir! Not a raid 10?!?! You cray.... You cray

Glad it's up and running!
 

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Jesus Christ lol and I thought my coolermaster haf case was huge.