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Dropped Laptop Hard Drive Not Detected.

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same problem. dropped the laptop, now harddrive not spinning up, no detection. I tried no battery with power cord, but nothing. fan works, but no spinning on the harddrive. shuts down after about 5 seconds. continues to try and reboot on it’s own. please help!
toshiba satellite t135.

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  1. You need a new hard drive. Hard drives just do not like being dropped.

    If the head seek mechanism has become displaced as is most likely or the disk spindle has been knocked of centre then there is nothing that can be done.

    Stuart

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