So I dropped my external hard drive from a height of about 2 - 3 feet off the top of my case and it landed on a wood floor, but it wasn't running. I realize that I should probably just give up on it and get a new one and that I'm stupid for not backing up my data and all that but I still want to at least give it a try before I just use it as a paper weight.
So after dropping it, I picked it up and plugged it into my Windows desktop which recognized some sort of USB drive device but didn't recognize it as a hard drive. I tried plugging it into my Thinkpad loaded with Ubuntu and it didn't even recognize a USB device. The strange thing is the drive didn't even start spinning either time. I'm definitely no hardware expert but I expected the drive to at least attempt to start spinning and making awful clicking sounds at which point I could at least do the freezer trick.
Any suggestions?
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