My HP laptop was slammed...(yes, I got caught on the not so lied websites) by my wife....
when trying to power on it makes a constant clicking noise. I took it in to repair at the butcher computer shops...of course I was told nothing can be saved and I need a new hard drive...
what are the chances of recovering pics and videos?
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Did you read the sticky: GUIDE: How to (hopefully) get your files back from your broken PC.
Symptom is consistent with the local shop's diagnosis. If the hard drive is trash, your smut is gone.
If you don't know how to secure your privacy then you got what you deserved.
The only chance you have is a very low-level operation on the drive. I recommend Spinrite It's not free, but if anything can save it, it will. Otherwise, you are looking at professional recovery in the thousands of dollars.
Try installing the laptop HD on a desktop and see if you can raed the data.
I have saved an awful lot of data by installing a new hard drive as the Master and changing the old drives jumper settings
so that it will be recognized as a Slave.
First ,swap the new and old drives and load the Operating System.
When that song and dance is complete ,turn off your computer and install the old master as a slave ,comfirm jumper settings
on both drives.
Restart the PC and you will be able to copy info from the old drive to the new.
If the drive was not detected the most likely suspect is incorrect jumper settings.
drodge said:The only chance you have is a very low-level operation on the drive. I recommend Spinrite It's not free, but if anything can save it, it will. Otherwise, you are looking at professional recovery in the thousands of dollars.
Drodge is right. If the drive was spinning when it hit the deck and the laptop or the drive doesnt have a free fall sensor, then the drive is most likely toast because the heads have physically crashed into the disk platters.
Cracking open the drive and trying to move the platters to a new drive requires a clean room (think Intel bunny suit commercial) and thus the reason why it costs thousands to recover.
Never used Spinrite myself but I have heard lots of good things about it.
Had a friend who's husband was pissed at his laptop and threw it across the room while it was on.
His drive had the same symptoms yours did and I attached it to my laptop with an external SATA to USB adapter and couldn't even get it to fully recognize the drive because it was so toasted.
I told him had he shut it down before the threw it, at least the data could have been saved, but now he has to replace $1000 laptop AND has lost all that data forever.
Sad part is his wife and my wife are very good friends and she knew I would have fixed it for him for free if he had just brought it over.
You guys need to check out Get Data Back from Runtime Software
I have saved my own bacon three separate times. I also recommend it to clients (several saved) when their disks get trashed.
You hook up the drive on a different channel or a USB case and run it. Windows doesn't even have to recognize the drive and it can usually get something off.
This is all dependent on the drive spinning up at all.
No activity = no chance to recover unless you want to try to find an identical model drive on eBBay and swap boards.
This is why I have a separate computer for all of my porn.
swandown said:This is why I have a separate computer for all of my porn.
lol amen..
actually have a separate HD for that stuff on the same computer
wandl said:swandown said:This is why I have a separate computer for all of my porn.
lol amen..
actually have a separate HD for that stuff on the same computer
encrypted with TrueCrypt for "plausible deniablility" 
hmm, sucks man, crashed platter is not something that will be worth it to recover.
This is why i keep an external drive and ftp important stuff to a remote site, no loss
or one could have always got carbonite
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