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Quite foolishly and without thinking I moved my subwoofer from a shelf against a wall to on top of my pc so as to stop annoying those living around me. Of course now on startup I am told that 'hard disks cannot be found'. The reason is obviously more than likely to do with electromagnetism. Is any data on the hard drive salvagable or should i just bury it in the garden and get on with my life?

Yes, you will have to reformat it and partition it, then reinstall you're O/Sto get it back to working order. As far as getting data off it you will have to use a data recovery software.If you want to do this then stop DO NOT do anything to the drive. You must have a second hard drive in the system, and hook you crashed hard drive up as a slave. I would recommend Stellar Phoenix software for data recovery. You can download a copy of it here. http://www.stellarinfo.com/ Download it to a working hard drive that has enough storage to back up you're old hard drive. If any data can be recovered it will let you know, then if you want to recover data you will have to buy the software. I used this software when I crashed a hard drive with 6 years of files on it and recovered every file. It works on all systems, including SATA, RAID. where other recovery software will not.