Please Help, Data Loss.

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pduan87

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Last night as I was putting back my computer, I totally screwed up the drive. What happened was that when I plugged the power into the floppy, I misaligned the connectors and the wire burnt up :(

There are four connectors that are like this:

| | | | (power cable)

| | | | (floppy)

I accidentally connected them like this:
. | | | | (power cable)

| | | | (floppy)

By the time I smelled the smoke, it was already to late. The powersupply wire had been melted and so had my hardrive. Now my hardrive won't spin up and I have a lot of important data on that. Any possible way to fix this other than a data recovery specialist? If not, how much would that cost?

BTW, it was a 40gig 2mb cache running Windows 2k.
 
Originally posted by SJConsultant
Have you replaced the power supply? It sounds like you fried it...................
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I tried plugging in the hard drive on another computer and it wont spin up either. The PSU still works on that computer. It powers everything else.
 
Originally posted by pduan87
I tried plugging in the hard drive on another computer and it wont spin up either. The PSU still works on that computer. It powers everything else.
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If the HDD doesn't spin up , I'm afraid you SOL and need to send it to a data recovery specialist.
 
there is a possibility that if you where to buy an {B]identical[/B] and I do mean Identical drive (exactly the same specific model, not just the same general model) you could use the controller curcuit board, in an attempt to access the "mechanical" portion of the drive, more than likely the motor isnt burned out.


what do I mean by exactly?

example
WD400BB-00DEA0
not a
WD400BB-00CAA0

both are western digital 40GB HDDs
both are sold as WD400BBs and would be listed as such by any retailer or in any auction, getting that last set of numbers would be something youd need to contact the seller about

there are often minor difference as a general model line progresses, from different parts, circuit board to low level formatting\information architecture changes

the thing about this approach is that even if it doesnt work, with care you replace the curcuit board and still have the new HDD to use.
Otherwise its time to send it to a lab for them to recover the data directly from the platters, several hundered dollars more likely than not.
 
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