i tried to connect the power to a maxtor ide 20g model: d740x-6l.
unforunatelly i made a damage because while the pc was on, the connect touched instantelly a wrong power pin of the drive and the pc turned off.
i thought that the psu was damaged but...
it is the hard drive that does not turn on any more.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE CONTENT OF THE DRIVE?
tell me please all of the possible solutions, .... data recovery companies, service experts, or other solutions.........
EVERY IDEA WILL BE APPRECIATED, THERE IS A HUGE WORK OF UNIVERSITY LESSONS INSIDE
hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
oops, sh*t happens...
you may have fried the controller logic, but there's still a small chance that the small black thing sitting above the innermost powerpin (5V) is a resistor that acts like a fuse and just blew.
Any traces of burn in that area ?
You may bridge the part and check if the drive is spinning up.
Otherwise the controllerboard of an identical drive from the same revision should make it usable again, so you can copy the data to another drive.
At least you don't need a special screwdriver to remove the controller.
cheers, Tom
you may have fried the controller logic, but there's still a small chance that the small black thing sitting above the innermost powerpin (5V) is a resistor that acts like a fuse and just blew.
Any traces of burn in that area ?
You may bridge the part and check if the drive is spinning up.
Otherwise the controllerboard of an identical drive from the same revision should make it usable again, so you can copy the data to another drive.
At least you don't need a special screwdriver to remove the controller.
cheers, Tom
Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
thanks, i will give it a try tomorrow
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Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
What you can do some times with HD's is... if you have another similar drive around that you can sacrifice... you can remove the interface board etc. from one, and put it on the other. I would be very careful attempting that, but it might work to get your old mechanism active.
Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
I had HDD troubles some month ago.
I was able to find an identical drive (same controller board and firmware revision), but swapping the controller didn't help me to access the data. That drive was still spinning, though; maybe its fault was head related...
(I was careful with the screwdriver and the faulty disk was warranty replaced.
The new unit arrived from factory is something more than 3ms slower in random access, though..
It has more recent controller and firmware revision and has been assembled in a different country...)
I was able to find an identical drive (same controller board and firmware revision), but swapping the controller didn't help me to access the data. That drive was still spinning, though; maybe its fault was head related...
(I was careful with the screwdriver and the faulty disk was warranty replaced.
The new unit arrived from factory is something more than 3ms slower in random access, though..
It has more recent controller and firmware revision and has been assembled in a different country...)
Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
yes, I remember that...
must have been a mechanical problem as I was able to switch controllerboards from a running storage array.
for reference: these were Seagate Barracuda drives and it worked with a 'same revision' board, but failed with a different revision (of a mechanically identical drive)
cheers, Tom
must have been a mechanical problem as I was able to switch controllerboards from a running storage array.
for reference: these were Seagate Barracuda drives and it worked with a 'same revision' board, but failed with a different revision (of a mechanically identical drive)
cheers, Tom
Re: hard drive dead because of dc damage!!!!!!
I remember I was able to hear some tickling when the drive initialize at startup, so I was thinking the heads were working.
When I had an identical but working unit in my hands, I realized the tickling at startup should had been more extended. I replaced the controller with the one from the working unit (same revision number), but I didn't check the one from the faulty unit on the working drive.
The working unit is going fine since its controller has been reinstalled.
It's very likely it was a mechanical failure. I heard some disks have some other electronics inside, though...
@ Arkadios: The fault in your drive is quite unequivocally due to overvoltage or other kind of electrical damage, so a working controller might solve.
The other solution is data recovery professionals, but it's quite expensive...
When I had an identical but working unit in my hands, I realized the tickling at startup should had been more extended. I replaced the controller with the one from the working unit (same revision number), but I didn't check the one from the faulty unit on the working drive.
The working unit is going fine since its controller has been reinstalled.
It's very likely it was a mechanical failure. I heard some disks have some other electronics inside, though...
@ Arkadios: The fault in your drive is quite unequivocally due to overvoltage or other kind of electrical damage, so a working controller might solve.
The other solution is data recovery professionals, but it's quite expensive...