multi-tasking_guy
Limp Gawd
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- Jun 16, 2017
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Here's what happened, I fried my hard drives, which were about 6 months old.
I used a cable from another psu and it fried my hard drives.
I didn't know i'm not supposed to use cables from other psu's
Well it's too late and my hard drive fried and they smell like smoke. And they don't spin.
So i had no choice to go out and buy a couple new hard drives. I bought the exact same ones i bought 6 months ago.
I wanted to do a test and i took off the chip board from the new hard drive and put it on the old drive.
And it starting spinning! I tried reformatting it but it always gave me a:
initialize disk request cannot be performed because of an I/O device
I tried to reformat it on Linux as well but no luck, So i can see the drive but i can't reformat it.
I thought it was a good test to try. Even if it worked i still wouldn't be able to save them since i can only use one board. Luckily i had an off-line backup.
But my question is why won't it work? When i fried it, it fried the chip board. Since it's mechanical inside i don't think it would matter.
im guessing maybe the firmware is newer?
the chip board looks like this on both,
advice?
I used a cable from another psu and it fried my hard drives.
I didn't know i'm not supposed to use cables from other psu's
Well it's too late and my hard drive fried and they smell like smoke. And they don't spin.
So i had no choice to go out and buy a couple new hard drives. I bought the exact same ones i bought 6 months ago.
I wanted to do a test and i took off the chip board from the new hard drive and put it on the old drive.
And it starting spinning! I tried reformatting it but it always gave me a:
initialize disk request cannot be performed because of an I/O device
I tried to reformat it on Linux as well but no luck, So i can see the drive but i can't reformat it.
I thought it was a good test to try. Even if it worked i still wouldn't be able to save them since i can only use one board. Luckily i had an off-line backup.
But my question is why won't it work? When i fried it, it fried the chip board. Since it's mechanical inside i don't think it would matter.
im guessing maybe the firmware is newer?
the chip board looks like this on both,
advice?