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Hi, I accidentally dropped my 2 tb Seagate expansion disc and now its making funny noises andm it wont even read on my windows 8 computer. Can some 1 help me please?

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I agree with the rest about a data recovery company. There are a lot of them out there. I have used http://www.alandata.com/ a few times in the past and so far they have always been able to get that data a needed back.

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Is this dropped Seagate hard disk recognized on other computers? In fact, in your cases, as long as this hard disk is still readable on other computer, you often can easily download external drive data recovery software to scan this drive and see whether these original drive files can be retrieved manually, like:
How to recover data from external hard disk that is dropped by mistake
But, if the data recovery software still makes no difference, merely ask some professional data recovery experts for help.
In the future, no matter what happens, always make drive data backups well on different drives.

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That reads like it could be a HDD motor failure. In that case, you will need to pay a data recovery company to have any data on it recovered.

Sorry to tell you that.

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Unfortunately it appears that the internals are shot
if the funny noise is a clicking sound or squeal then the repair is a new hd unit as they are generally not repairable.

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