The most natural thing to do after dropping a hard drive or laptop, is to turn it on to see if it still works. It’s probably, clicking, scraping, spinning without access to your data, or beeping. If you are reading this, there is a 95% chance that you or someone you know has an external hard drive that hit the floor, and now it doesn’t work correctly. IF YOUR DATA IS VALUABLE TO YOU, DON’T BE TEMPTED TO MAKE THIS CRUCIAL MISTAKE… Usually when we get to tell people this very valuable fact, it’s too late … (please help us share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter)
Through our experience saving data from dropped hard drives, we have found the very first thing everyone does after dropping their hard drive or laptop, is the worst thing anyone can do.
