Hard Drive Doom!

[Deadend]

I hate to ask for help, but I in a bit of a rage right now, and I can't think.
My girlfriend dropped my hard drive while it was in an external enclosure and running.

The hard drive is now inside my PC as I am trying to save it.

It's a 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda, it has all my media on it, so I kind of want it back.

In Windows Disk Management, the drive doesn't have a letter anymore and shows up as a 3.86 GB! drive with no partition and needs to be initialized. When I try and do so, it goes "Request Could Not Be Perfomed because of an I/O Device Error".

I just tried GetDataBack NTFS, and it isn't doing anything either.

Anyone have any suggestions? As right now, I think the hard drive is dead and all my stuff is gone.

[RandoM51]

What does drive autodetect report in your BIOS? Does it see the right specs for the drive?

Been so long since I used anything other than autodetect I don't even know if you can manually set drive geometry in a modern BIOS. If you can and the BIOS autodetect is not working properly you can try that. Drive geometry shouldn't be hard to dig up on the web.

[Karak]

I hate to ask for help, but I in a bit of a rage right now, and I can't think.
My girlfriend dropped my hard drive while it was in an external enclosure and running.

The hard drive is now inside my PC as I am trying to save it.

It's a 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda, it has all my media on it, so I kind of want it back.

In Windows Disk Management, the drive doesn't have a letter anymore and shows up as a 3.86 GB! drive with no partition and needs to be initialized. When I try and do so, it goes "Request Could Not Be Perfomed because of an I/O Device Error".

I just tried GetDataBack NTFS, and it isn't doing anything either.

Anyone have any suggestions? As right now, I think the hard drive is dead and all my stuff is gone.

Its failed at that point. I lost a 560 page novel the same way last year and talked to some of the peeps here. But if its not seeing the drive and your getting those errors it is most likely shot.
I checked into device recovery and it was well over $1000.00 for a 500 gig.

[Krispy]

Sorry to hear that. Those 1.5TB drives are notorious for breaking.

[benson]

If you are losing something really important and don't have a backup, I may be able to help. This does not mean I will help when you just lost season one of Lost or something. You can replace that. I mean family pictures or Karak's novel.

[Deadend]

Yeah, it was nothing important, I keep important stuff (which tends to be small in filesize) backed up on gmail, or flicker, or basically anywhere I can store it for free and private on the internet.

[ThievesAmongUs]

Ugh, tell me about it. My latop HD decided to kick the bucket a week ago, and now I'm stuck looking for a replacement for it.