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I just dropped my desktop external 3TB hard drive (has to be plugged in) less than a foot, which landed on envelops on their side, so not a hard fall...

Now it won't load, when I plug it in, it makes a small beeping sound. Not a mechanical scratching, a machine beep. When I plugged it in the first ...

I'm attempting to use Acronis TrueImage to back up the drive but it's saying it needs 6.5 TB to back up a 1.5 TB drive, when usually it uses a smaller amount than the original...

I assume this means there are bad sectors..

If I back up this drive, sector-by-sector and attempt to decrypt the new ...

cg, if there are bad sectors do you think this would work?
I have another post here and I think this may apply.

It's a PGP encrypted disk, but yes, it detects it as 1500Gb. I can take a picture Chen home because it's not the entire story.. It's listed twice, I believe, for some reason.

Just to fill in a few more details..

When you plug the drive in it asks to be formatted, so it's detecting a disk. It makes a small noose when starting but nothing really abnormal. SMART scan fines the drive in perfect shape and staying at 26c.
>wmic logicaldisk get name returns C:/(OS) D:/(CD) and ...

My 1.5 TB drive with 15 years of data, including work, has recently went from NTFS to RAW.
It's unfortunately also encrypted with PGP Desktop 10.
I can't decrypt it as is because it's not showing up in PGP to decrypt.

I will pay if someone can help me solve this problem.
Any help would be greatly ...