Can I repair a hard drive of a notebook?

My hard drive shows me at the PC since I gave a hit against my notebook no longer every time when booting up so moving noises from the hard drive has it now a total damage? Please I have so many memories on the hard drive that I really was missing… I have taken out the hard drive nnun no delle seems to have or so…

If it still works in a bit you can clone it or connect it with a SATA to USB on another PC / notebook

I would NOT turn it on, you destroy your data.

And then use Google, because there are companies that can save data from the hard drive.

If you have not already destroyed everything by constantly switching it on and off.

But that costs right!

PS: If you have important data, ever heard of backup? 😁😎

A hdd I suppose? It may be that in the blow the read head has drawn a deep scratch in the plate. The data can be saved in any case. However, specialists pay well when it comes to this. So if you have absolutely no access to the data anymore, then you have a little problem now.

I have no access to my data at all. Can't I somehow try to check the hard disk myself and possibly fix it? What would cost me such a specialist? Will all the data be saved then? I had 4 login accounts with all the data that was on the desktop are automatically stored on the hard disk or did I have to put them in a special folder so that happens I'm currently very desperate?

The first website at google tells me "recovery of disks from 249 euro". This is the only service that is more expensive than taxi driving. Hmm so you can of course screw the thing up and see what exactly happened - if you have the right screwdrivers to do so. But if you can even save something there… Uuff 😅

Do you have Windows 10? I do not use it, but there's "one drive" or whatever that means. There you can save your data in the microsoft cloud. Maybe it did that? 😅 With good luck? Otherwise you need a lot of money to get your data

It was windows 7 and I just booted via a USB stick with Linux on it… One would have known I knew that these hard drives are so sensitive I would have never hit on it…

I've never said that it's not justified, I'm a computer science student myself, so I'm aware of the effort - but it's just a lot of money

Especially HDDs are very sensitive because the head really hovers just above the plate. And if the blow comes off and hits the very fast rotating plate, then that is very bad 😅 that's why most laptops today have SSDs installed. Since shaking is much less serious, reading is also faster, but they are just more expensive and not sooo good if you change many large amounts of data regularly, because the cells are virtually used up, which does not happen with an HDD

But yes, I digress from 🙈 but now you know why by a blow your hard drive can break directly - at least during operation. Otherwise, the read head is in a rest position, where he can do no harm to the plate in case of shocks

Should I screw on the hard drive and see if the reading head is on the plate to bring it CAUTION on his place I think that would be the smallest problem for what you do not necessarily have to go to the specialist if you are not so stupid hires or? The data are so incredibly important to me that I really lost a piece of my life if my hard drive can't be saved.

Then you know what happened and you see the evil with your own eyes - but it will not bring much I appreciate because if the read head is broken, you have just beautiful stripes / impact points on the plate. But you can't even easy so if you do not intend to go to a specialist. Can you do it, it's broken already

Do not say something is broken it is not when I look and see that no scratch stripes are created then there's still the chance to save it! Do not make me a bad one

In fact, it can also be that you do not see anything. As far as I know, you stack several plates on each other to have more space. If only one of them is broken, you already have a problem 😅 so yes, check it out and try your luck, maybe you can save something, but I just do not want to make you wrong 😬 So if there are unusual noises come out and the hard drive obviously not working properly, then that's just a really bad sign

At that point, you have to decide, if the data is worth something or not. If they are not worth anything to you, you can try a "repair" on your own. But if you do not know what you are doing and you do not have the right tools, I would say it goes awry. And then data recovery in the lab becomes either very expensive or even impossible.

That's why:

Either possible complete loss of data => self-experiment

Or straight to the lab