I've practiced using ddrescue to image several old drives including an old 60GB one that was making excessive spindle whine which I intentionally opened in a dusty environment to induce bad sectors and other faults and managed to successfully image this drive. I've installed the latest release of Ubuntu on a separate machine with the sole purpose of using it for the recovery of that drive. Having said that I proceeded to learn as much as I could about hard drive architecture, possible faults and the options of recovery. I am aware that any action taken by myself can damage the drive further and reduce the chance of a successful recovery of the data. I would like to state at this point that it's unlikely I could afford a professional data recovery service, and while the data on that drive isn't critical, it would be nice to get it back so I'll try whatever I can myself.
To avoid potentially doing further damage to the drive I set it aside and proceeded to research data recovery options.
The drive was not seen by the BIOS at all. Upon connecting the drive, it was not recognized by Windows, prompting me to remove the drive from it's casing and connect it direct to the SATA controller on the motherboard. The hard drive seemed to still respond okay in Windows 7, allowing me to browse through the folder structure, but as a precaution I unhooked the drive no more than a minute after the fall in order to connect it to a PC which had enough spare disk space to copy all files off before complete failure.
WESTERN DIGITAL WD10EADS CONTROL BOARD SERIAL
Scroll down if you simply want to know the current state of the drive and/or images of the drive, board and serial numbers.Ībout a week ago a friend tripped over the power cable for my external USB hard drive - WD10EADS -11M2B2 in a "My Book Essential" external package - which pulled it off a low table (45cm) onto the ground. I have split this post into a few sections as it is quite long, but I wanted to give anyone willing to help as much information as I can.
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