My mother just destroyed my Harddisk with 200GB data

but you didn't let him finish the story...his room is so dirty that his mom needs a claw hammer to remove the dirt buildup

 

Well that's why my parents have there own computers each one + my laptop only i use it

 

Take it to a computer shop they should be able to recover it.

- Prilep

 

And hope you don't have important data on your external 200gb harddisk

Rajat

 

A lesson to be learnt - dont leave your valuable data on the floor!

 

did she throw your computer? or unscrew the harddisk?

 

wow that sux... i cant tell you haw many time i used to leave my usb drives an the floor and my mom would suck them up in the vacuum....
we had like the hulk vacuum or something b/c it would suck it up and like completly destroy it.

 

is it broken, then i can't help,
other wise, if there are some bad sectors, i can block them, and make it working again!
i have a 40 gb harddisk with 8 gb of bad sectors blocked in almost 12 parts!! i still run it, and it is working!

 

I am using a USB external HDD container with my 200GB maxtor hdd inside, the USB device is detected by the drive is not showing up, and there is a clicking sound every few seconds... Looks like i have to open it up

 

use linux, windows don't detect these!
you can try the dos, boot your computer with another harddisk and get to dos, then use this broken hdd as secondary slave! and then try detecting it,
use the fdisk,

it is not all that easy, but then if the bad sectors are blocked then it will sure work,

you can't open the hdd, but then perhaps opening the usb case is not all that a bad idea!

 

Thats tough, but what exactly do you mean by 'destroyed'. Did she beat the HDD to death or she destoryed the data in it? (the data can be recovered, btw)

 

Why not take the drive to a computer tech and have them retrieve your data? These guys are amazing. They can recover most things.

Then just go buy another drive.


Mary

 

That's the logic reaction if you put your "mouse" on the floor: take the broom and BAM! woohooo!. .
But it's not logic with a hard disk. Sorry

 

Now that your hard disc is destroyed, you must try to look out for a source which can help you in saving your hard disc data. Also dont keep any grudge over your mom. Just forgive and forget about the whole issue.

 

Ah, these women!!!!

 

My mom breaks my things all the time, though never anything as big as a 200 GB disk.

 

it was probably an accident. Maybe she kicked it as she was walking by.