No (I think ;D). I was surprised to see what looked like one really thick platter inside it. I wasn’t paying close attention when I briefly peeked inside the first time, but I *think* it just had some little speck-like nicks in the platter. I guess they sort of turned into that groove, but it was making the “sssshhishing” sound from right after the drop, like the heads were skimming across the platter. There probably was some sort of tiny protrusion caught under the head that was scratching it. I never did find any of the aforementioned “debris” inside. ???
BTW- The drive is right here. It’s a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 (ST3160212A) 160Gig. It was in a SimpleTech external USB2.0 enclosure.
George
PS- From the moment this occurred, I have not once considered that it was anyone/anything’s fault but my own. It was a really stupid thing to do, having that much small important stuff in one fragile place with DVD/CD media being as cheap as it is. Glad it made you or any others here think about it though. I’d hate to see anyone else fall into that. Like I said, that “instantaneous death” was not something I had ever experienced or prepared for here.
tomorrow my damaged iPod s drive is up for repairing, there is nothing really i want to retrive from it but it can be funny to learn how to deal with broken HDs
Jidis..
i had the same problem some years ago and all my music projects were lost.. well it made me think of the uncertainty of life itself and that we all have to start making funny noise and some day.. die.It also made me understand that most of those projects were useless c++p (far from me meaning yours were) so i started new ones and they are still c++p but better and more fresh c++p
see in your data loss a message from the holy digital that it was time for you to enter a new dimension, pick up your camera the world is still out there and your mother s little nephews are waiting for you, push Nuendo over the limit, download the latest MB64E application, don t look back… or better .. don t look back-up.
you can very likely recover some or most of the data…
you could try bending the head arm up a bit.. risky since if you bend it too high it wont read the platter.. and If the MBR is on that surface, it will never find it, and call yet another drive failure..
but then, were also talking about micrometers.. so… it might take very little ‘bending’ to get it back in place??