My Passport Essential not recognized

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Hi There

I have a My Passport Essential that was dropped recently.

The unit turns on and I can hear it spinning (no clicking sounds) but the drive is not recognized on the computer.

I tried wiggling around the cable.  It was recognized but as the driver was loading I got a message that the unit was disconnected.  Couldn’t get it to work again.

Is this just a bad connection with the cable or the USB port in the unit?  I am hoping it is still recoverable.

Any help would be appreciated.

Char231

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It’s probably physically damaged and beyond do it yourself recovery. It doesn’t take much of a bump to damage disks or heads.

Joe

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Thanks

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Did you get help with this? Is there hope of saving my data? I also dropped my passport