Journal aridhol's Journal: Hard drive surgery 8
I'm on Halifax now on a 4-month course. Among other things that I packed along, I brought my laptop (of course) and my external hard drive, on which resides my music collection. Unfortunately, I brought the wrong power supply, and managed to drive 12 volts down a 5 volt connection.
I currently have a very dead hard drive (Samsung SP1604N), which I would like to recover. I have already purchased a new enclosure. If the hard drive is not connected, the light comes on; however, if the drive is connected, the light comes on briefly then goes out. The hard drive doesn't spin up.
Does anybody have any suggestions regarding drive surgery options? Is there a fuse or something similar I can replace or bypass just for a couple hours so I can copy my files onto a new drive?
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Either way there IS the last ditch option of going to a data recovery company and having them extract the data for a hefty price.
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but i knew the platters and everything inside was fine. so i just checked ebay for an identical drive - and found a guy who was just selling the bare board - which worked nicely.
i thought i had done a journal en
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