External hard drive not showing up using external enclosure

[Joe]

My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I
tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on
the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so
the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any
other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer
or is the hard drive fried?

 

[Gordon]

My hard drive failed on my laptop this morning and it wouldn't boot. I
tried to put it into an external enclosure but it wouldn't show up on
the MY Computer folder. I tried another hard drive and it showed up so
the connection and the enclosure are working properly. Is there any
other way I can get my hard drive to show up as a drive on My Computer
or is the hard drive fried?

What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?

 

[Joe]

What part of "failed" means "it's still working"?

so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into
the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up, no
dice huh?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

so if it's shot it's shot? I just figured maybe if I plugged it into
the computer I could get to some of the files I've yet to back up,
no dice huh?

Depends on *how* it failed.

 

[Joe]

Depends on *how* it failed.

a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive. Is
there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the information
through some more sophisticated means?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

a friend thinks it may have been a power surge because it wasn't
giving me problems before this morning. When I plug it into the
external enclosure it clicks madly and doesn't show up as a drive.
Is there anywhere I can bring it where they can extract the
information through some more sophisticated means?

'clicks madly'...
Dead.

You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
quickly gets your data off. heh

 

[Joe]

'clicks madly'...
Dead.

You could likely get the data recovered at some data recovery house for
$1000+ or with luck from someone who does the drop and plug in method and
quickly gets your data off. heh

Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
data?

 

[Bob I]

Ok it's dead. I've gone through the 7 stages. Now what do I do with
the hard drive? should I just throw it out? How can I be sure someone
with great skills and bad motives won't find it and get to my personal
data. If I wave a magnet over it will that be sufficient to dump the
data?

Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.

 

[Joe]

Opening it with a hammer will preclude any successful data recovery.

Unfortunately the computer is not mine, it's a company computer but I
do not know what they are going to do with the hard drive/computer
once I send it back to them. For all I know they will sell it to some
third party and end up on ebay. I cannot get to the hard drive, it's
corrupt so the best I can think is to place a large magnet on it for a
night.