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Dead drive, rebuild possible?

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infinitywulf

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Ok guys here's a last resort cry, and it's my own darn fault. :(
Went through and was modding my box, having a good old time, sleeved my psu and all the good stuff. Somewhere along the line I mixed up the wires going into just one of my molexes and put in the 12v and the 5v lines reversed. Yellow where red is supposed to be and vice versa. Of course this power lead instead of going to a case fan or cold cathode or something cheap went into my slave HDD which had about 70 gigs of data on it I'd rather like to recover.
Now I know something is fried or such, but I see nothing wrong on the control board... No burns etc.
I'm guessing it's something wrong with the drive motor. *play the death march music here* What I want to know is this: Anyone have any ideas on taking apart another drive to make this one work? There were no odd sounds etc out of it... And when I powered on I think it died a quick clean death as 12v power went through where 5v of power was supposed to... But if I swapped out a motor or such off an older drive think I might be able to recue data off it? I know a clean room is really needed as one bit of dust etc and the drive's pretty much toast anyway, but as it is the data is lost one way or another... And I don't feel like shelling out 300 bucks or so plus the cost of a new HDD just to get the data back.
So ideas? Anyone? Help is much appriciated since while most of the important data is backed up on cdr's, there's quite a bit that's not and is lost to me at this point.
 
You can buy the same drive and try to get the same exact model controller board and swap them.
 
Hrm, I've seen conflicting things on this... One drive repair company actually said they did this to get it to work, another said if you did this it could possibly screw up the drive worse... Personally I don't see how it could screw it up worse if it's the same type of control board...
I was thinking also, do you think it would be the control board or the motor? If it's the control board, just a bit of soldering etc and that should be fine, if it's the motor though. :(
So anyone know if the motor would go bad in a drive it would cause the comp not to see it at boot? Or would it be the control board at fault here even though it doesn't show any visible signs of damage? (Yeah I know just because there's nothing visible doesn't mean there's nothing wrong.) Worst case scenario I guess is both the motor and control board are bad... If I buy a new drive and swap the control boards I guess I'll have to flip a coin or something to see if I go all the way and swap the motors or such if it still doesn't work.
Any more ideas folks?
And yeah, I'm kicking my own ass about every five minutes for mixing up that molex. :(
 
HD's are suck delicate devices, granted we all handle them with out as much as a care in
the world but a power surge such as yours may not have "fried" anything you could see but
remember the IC circuitry and the onboard memory, have internals that are not able to be
seen.

I see your point about the controller board though. I would get the exact same drive and
switch, if that doesn't work, then most likely the extreme situation of "switching" the platters
may be your last ditch effort.
:(
 
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