Maxtor External Hard Drive failure?

[MD1032]

Hey guys,

I have a "Maxtor Personal Storage 3100" according to what I've seen on the internet. It's an older 200GB Maxtor external hard drive that I've used for a long time now as my external drive. Unfortunately, I had a shelf collapse on me today and it dropped a foot or so onto another shelf on its side. I noticed a high-pitched whine coming from it, so I cut the power. Unfortunately, it now no longer works. When I plug in the power, it makes a minor arpeggio which repeats with increasing volume a couple times. Plugging in the USB connector yields the same result, and it's not showing up, and the drive itself is not turning on.

This is an absolute catastrophe. I have years and years of saved music and pictures on that drive. The kind of stuff that I would NEVER be able to get back nor replace. It would be an absolute tragedy to lose the amount of stuff I have on that drive. It is so essential, I am sure I would be willing to do anything to get it back.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Bizkitkid2001]

Since it sounds like a hardware failure, your only option may be to go have a professional data recovery company recover your data. But, your looking at possibly spending up to $1,000 is fees to do so.


Backups ftw

[Keymaker]

Open the phone book and look for data recovery specialists.

Put that drive in a safe place and don't mess with it! They may be able to recover most of your data.

Always, always treat a hard drive as though it were nuclear waste. Store the drive in a location where there will be no possibility of damage. Think of fire as well.

I hope your alright.