160GB Portable HD dropped, Now reads as 2TB

[jdl8422]

Well I was walking to my car from school, I dropped the hard drive about 2-3ft. It had a little scuff on it, I didnt think anything of it, When I get home to plug it in, it doesnt show up on my desktop. I opened the disk utility and it shows 2TB drive. Whenever I try to erase or partition it gives me an input/output error. Is this drive gone for good?

Also, the drive lights up and I can hear the disk spin.

 

[mankar4]

sell it as a 2tb drive.

you might be able to get it fixed, but I doubt theres anything you can do.

 

[~J~]

Thats the cheapest and easiest HD upgrade I've ever heard of! Wish I would have known about that before I bought a 250GB internal for my MBP... shouldda just dropped it!

I would say that your are kinda outta luck on this one tho... sounds like a head crash to me, in which case, I hope you had everything on there backed up...

 

[jdl8422]

I'm not so worried about the data, but the drive is only a month old, I guess its a $100 down the drain.

 

[GoCubsGo]

I'm not so worried about the data, but the drive is only a month old, I guess its a $100 down the drain.

Sounds like it because you dropped it. Also, this is kinda in the wrong forum. I thought you were saying the 160gb drive was for sale but it was a 2tb drive. I was about to buy! You tease!

 

[mobydisk]

I'm sorry, but you cannot repair a hard drive that took that kind of a fall. It's gone. I've been there before, so you can have my virtual shoulder to cry on. :'(

 

[kkat69]

I'm not so worried about the data, but the drive is only a month old, I guess its a $100 down the drain.

For a price you might be able to get an image of the drive created by a data backup specialist. Will probably require you to send off the drive. Maybe even the manufacturer can help. Ask around.

Pretty sure, 99.9999999999999999999999% sure the drive is toast and non-functional. But that doesn't mean a company with the proper tools can't get the data off it. It could be possible.

Sorry for your loss.


Personally I like the ebay idea

 

[Zephgx]

Best and cheapest way to get your HD upgraded.

Maybe the data can be recovered, Although my guess the head broke and the drive keeps spining. I dropped a 160gb HD (drop was maybe 2 feet) for an upgrade for a laptop and still works, but sadly doesnt see it as 2tb like yours

Selling it isnt really a bad option (IMO)

 

[cohibadad]

Hard drive is toast. But I'm more interested in why you have 2 time machines.

 

[iMouse]

I had a 1 EB drive for about 30 seconds

I attempted to mount a 80 GB Buslink FireWire/USB2 external drive with a backup I grabbed off a failing hard drive. When I plugged it into my iMac (one without the failing drive), Disk Utility registered it as being 1 EB in size!

I didn't think about it at the time, but I should have screenshotted it or taken a Snapz movie.

After umounting the drive and remounting it, it went back to showing 80GB :-(

 

[jdl8422]

Today 08:10 PM
cohibadad : Hard drive is toast. But I'm more interested in why you have 2 time machines.

I had a 250 ext. HD for time machine and it was running low so I bought a 1TB ext. HD and I was in the middle of cloning it.