hockey9592

Yes, I meant to ask what to do from here. Thanks for the advice. I have heard about the freezer method but I will try that after the chkdsk /r f: and Linux methods. Could the freezer method damange it more? And I have no idea how the drive letters were changed. I took the Disk Management screenshot before I tried using Recuva. In-between that time I had connected an external drive that might have had F:\ as well so maybe it was changed in the process. I have also heard if you repalce the circuit board that can fix the problem? I haven't been able to find much info online on how to take apart the drive and try to fix it. Probably harder than it sounds

My 2.5 SATA 750GB Seagate Momentus drive incurred physical damage in April when my laptop took a nasty spill. I did bring it to a computer repair store shortly after it happened and they were unable to back up my data. They said the damage was great enough that it would require someone to rebuild some of the components inside of the drive. Unfortunately, I can't afford $1,000+ to do that. I recently bought a USB Hard Drive Adapter and to my surprise I was able to power up the damaged drive. However, I receive this message: data error cyclic redundancy check when I try to access the drive. Under Disk Management, the file system for the damaged drive is listed as "RAW" while the other drives are listed as "NTFS." I should mention this is all being done on the same laptop (HP, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit); however, I do have a new drive it now. To my surprise, my laptop even recognized the letter of the damaged drive "F" I tried using Recuva to recover the data. It was able to detect some of the data, but not much (mostly windows system files). Also, the few files I was able to transfer over, they do not open. Here is a screen shot of what the Disk Management looks like, as well the results using the Recuva program: