I dropped my 30 GB.
It is a western Digital.
now the HD does not want to work and makes a loud noice. I want to know of a way that i can get the info out.
A company, serive, technique that will help me acomplish this is apreciated.
keep in mind that i'm not talking about bad sectors or corrupt file system or anything like that..
I'm talking about possible physica damage.

Sorry to tell you but you ruined the hard drive because when you dropped it on the floor the hard drive heads mounced up and down and scratched the surface and damaged the read write heads. You can try to recover files from it fy booting from a second hard drive and ghosting the files to the good hard drive from the busted 30 gb but the hd just might not work.

Jason Comp Tech

I don't know how you dropped it on the floor, oh well, I just won't ask. Like Jason said, it's probably damaged beyond much use. The fact that it grinds loudly might be the heads grinding on the platter... you never know. If the BIOS won't read the drive, then you're fairly well out of hope for getting data off of it yourself. If there was some really important stuff on it that you simply HAVE to have, there are labs where they can disassemble the drive and read it... sometimes it can be expensive because of how clean the facility must be and the equipment needed, but if the data is irreplaceable, you might as well.

-Chris

Thanks for the info guys..
I should mention that the BIOS does detect the HD.

And the data on it i considered to be fairlly irreplaceable.
I been writing material for a few books that I plan to make. So it has over 2 years worth of stuff that I have writen.
Getting back the ismpiration, time, and ideas will present a quite large chalenged for me.
On top of that as a web developer and graphic artist, i had all the original, arts, and files stored in this disk.

Any other info is apreciated!

Maybe time to write that chapter on how to do backups.
google found thousands of hits on data recovery from hard drives.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%2Bhard+drive%2Bdata%2Brecovery&spell=1

Exactly. Backups are very important & should always be done when working on important data. One of the first things I learned in tech school.

yep, there are PLENTY companies that claim to be able to recover parts of data from the hard drives even after a devastating fire, so i guess they should be able to recover a good amount of your data.
i hope you have not tried to run the hdd too often after the crash, because that should increase the damage by moving the bent heads over the disks.
immediately after the shock there should have been almost no actual data loss on the discs' surfaces, i guess, as the heads would've crashed into the landing zone which is quite safe afaik.
btw: the detection is answered by the controller on the hdd no matter how screwed up the physical components are..

Hope you didnīt drop it on the foot and shouted "OOOh, that megaheartz"!!
(Sorry) Just kidding. Seriously, there is lots of companys who can empty a crashed hdd, but they cost!!!!! (Up to 2000 US$ if youre unlucky) But, in most cases, its NOT at all impossible. Good luck.

Im very sorry to hear about you hardisk. I fix PC for people all the time and about one year ago I fixed a old PC that a person had droped one floor :-/. I fixed the drive by opening it and without taching the drive a removed the head and tryed to fix anything I could find was not right. Try it if you can not get anyone or anything to fix it. BUT you can essaly DAMAGE it even WERSS!!

Alexander :-))