Linda -

With enough money, one can accomplish almost anything...  If the drive 
surface itself is damaged, then *most* of the data is still on your 
drive.  However, it won't be possible for the average home user to 
retrieve it.  It *may* be possible for a professional data-recovery 
company to get some of the information back, depending on the actual 
damage to the drive.  However, that can be a very expensive process.

If it's just the case that was damaged then simply getting another 
external case and swapping the drives would suffice to get you up and 
running again...

Tony Mayer


Linda Kuzyk wrote:
> Someone asked me this question.....I do not know the answer so I thought 
> I would post it here.   An external hard drive fell and was damaged...not
>  sure if the disks are spinning.  Can the data on the drive still be retr
> ieved somehow?
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