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Mom dropped this WD My Book 4tb hard drive, it doesn't show up in file explorer anymore, makes a weird sound. Would love to recover the data that was on there :
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So I dropped my external HDD today an decided to do a post-mortem. Is the dark line the damage that was done in the drop? Details in comments : r/LinusTechTips
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