blown my hard drive pcb!

HAz

HAz

HAz

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ok so i plugged my hard drive into my pc via the Molex while the thing was on and in windows! it was just some cheep old thing but it contains valuable data. it made a spark noise and the pc rebooted! now the hard drive wont spin at all.

luckily i had a spare but it was an 80gb and had a different pcb design. So i connected it up and then plugged it in, i turn the pc on and then a component on the pcb went red and burned out lol.

It it worth sourcing a spare identical drive and replace the pcb? or should i give up on this drive?
 
First one dying sucks, I plug in/unplug hard drives while the computer is on all the time. Think I'll stop doing that now.

Can't work out what you mean with the second part though, did you take the pcb off a spare but completely different hard drive and connect it to the one nuked in part one? Fair play if so, wouldn't have expect it to work but actually burning out is surprising.

Whether sourcing an identical drive and swapping boards about is worth trying depends on how valuable the data is really. Think it's probably gone though :(
 
JonJ678 said:
Can't work out what you mean with the second part though, did you take the pcb off a spare but completely different hard drive and connect it to the one nuked in part one? Fair play if so, wouldn't have expect it to work but actually burning out is surprising.
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it was an 80gb version, it was same make and looked identical, the pcb was smaller tho and had a diffrent layout! it fitted just fine but it blew as soon as i plug it in lol!

LizardKing said:
Done this in the past and has worked fine, there are ebay resellers than specialise in hard drive boards. good luck :)
heres my original post
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17896563&highlight=sniff+smell
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Ok cheers will try this then
 
I did the same thing with a 200 gb seagate. I got same drive model off ebay but the board revision is ever so slightly different. Seagate surprised me as the board literally comes off with 6 screws and just uses pogo pin style contacts. Took about 1 minute to swap the boards, but it didn't work. I've since ordered some more drives and am waiting on them, Don't know if it'll work or not but worth a try. I'm slowly building a collectino of seagate 200GB 7200.9 drives.
 
It's worth a try if you can get a second hand drive or board cheap given the data is important to you. It'll cost far less than professional data recovery for sure.
 
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