How to fix my portable hard drive?

Question

i dropped it and it had been through day to day life for 6 months i plug it in it doesn't work. i think its broken btw its old 60gb hard drive my laptop came with put in a hard drive case. im going to try a different case and if that doesnt work i think it is broken.

Answer 1

Sometimes things break.  Dropped drives usually don't survive and recovering data from them is expensive.

You could put another drive in the case if you have one.

Answer 2

Im in tears