wd my passport ultra not working after falling

If a pro recovery is out of your budget atm do it later: Drive was dropped, it might have severe physical damages (platter, firmware, heads), nothing you can do but make it worse. You Can Tell Him i ' amarbir ' Referred You To Him The data isn't super critical, but we've got the first 4 months of our 17 month old's life on there and not backed up anywhere else :S. Wish I had the money for sending it off but the budget is too tight. Thanks all! I'm sure my cause is pointless, but we're willing to try anything. I found another drive exactly like the one we have and ordered it, but I'm curious if there's anything I should try when I go to swap the heads? I thought it was strange that it clicked after installing the new head. After all that, I noticed at some point the top head magnetic piece slightly separated, so it's probably bad now. WD Data Lifeguard didn't recognize it was plugged in either.

I swapped the PCB's one more time and when I plugged it in, the computer recognized it (showed under USB Eject Media icon in lower right corner but didn't assign drive letter or show up under disk management), but it was back to clicking. The head would eventually park and the led light blinked non-stop.I let it run overnight to see if it would do anything but never did. It spun up and made some noises (no more clicking) but never did anything from there.I'm assuming that's because of the BIOS chip being different on the new PCB.

I then unplugged it and swapped the PCB's. Everything went smooth, but when I plugged it in, it still clicked. I took the donor drive's head and swapped it into the old drive. The PCB on the back side are the same on both. I had her purchase another drive with the same P/N listed above and the drive that came in it was the same model # but drive did not indicate it was a Blue drive.

Wife dropped her HDD and the head began clicking. Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB USB 3.0 (purchased 2015 I believe)

Wd my passport ultra not working after falling