Fried HDD ?

Tommy Peanuts · 30 Mar 2013 at 01:02

Hi all,
I moved house this week and have just been setting back up all my AV stuff in the front room. This includes a Boxee Box, connected to a USB Hub and 3 x 500GB Freecom XXS USB HDD's.

Anyways, I inadvertently plugged my D-Link USB Hub in using my D-Link Linksys router power pack by mistake. The one drive I had connected preceded to get very hot indeed at one end, and now wont spin up either with the Boxee or my laptop.

Does anyone know how these drives work ? Will I have completely fried the actual disk, or will it just be the controller or something which can be swapped round with another of the drives ?

Nothing major will be lost, only films which can be re-ripped but i'd prefer to salvage if I can.

Any advice greatfully received.
Cheers
Lee

PiKe · 30 Mar 2013 at 01:13

Just take the drive out the enclosure and plug it directly into the PC via Pata or Sata and it'll probably be readable just fine.

Tommy Peanuts · 30 Mar 2013 at 01:22

unfortunately the Freecom XXS drives are just bare 2.5" drives contained within a rubber sleeve.
I've just taken the drive out of the sleeve and there is only a USB connection on the circuit board, no other connectors

Tommy Peanuts · 30 Mar 2013 at 02:41

it looks like I could unscrew the circuit board from the physical drive, wondering if I could temporarily use the board of another drive to pull the data off, would that likely work or is there a hardware ID that needs to match or something ?

Surveyor · 30 Mar 2013 at 08:50

Tommy Peanuts said:
it looks like I could unscrew the circuit board from the physical drive, wondering if I could temporarily use the board of another drive to pull the data off, would that likely work or is there a hardware ID that needs to match or something ?

I think you'd need a board from an identical drive with identical firmware.