Originally Posted by Bonoman
So, does anybody know how to fix a hard-drive that will not turn on? I'm back on my laptop right now, but I need to get that hard-drive working because I've got a ton of {censored} on it that I haven't backed up yet (I had a prolific week). Now the {censored}er won't turn on. I'm going to open it up tomorrow and inspect its guts, but I don't really know what I'm doing so any advice would be appreciated... Maybe I should make a non-TK topic about this?
Don't literally open the hard drive. You wanna really screw the thing up...
If you don't know what you're doing, it may be a good idea to get it to a computer repair shop and have them look at it.