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The same thing that happens when you drop mostly anything: they could break, though modern drives will take quite a battering with no damage.
Answer:The impact can shatter the discs, break the reader arm, or damage the circuit board. If the discs are intact, the data can be retrieved by installing them in another drive, but it will cost you an arm and a leg.
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∙ 13y agoBroken hard drives are typically discarded and replaced. If the data stored on it is valuable, a data recovery center may be used to retrieve the data in one of various ways and transfer it to a new drive.
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