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Wingless · 11-27-2004, 02:55 PM

Story time... My friend drops by earlier today and wants to get something off his external 80 gig HD and put it onto my laptop. So to save a minute or two of work, I decide to plug his HD in using my laptop plug. The HD, however, decides not to work. Comparing the power supply of the HD and the power supply of the laptop, the HD requires 12v input, and my laptop requires 20v. Basically I overpowered the HD.

We opened up the external HD case, removed the actual HD, bought a 3.5" HD (IDE) > USB 2.0 box, and put the HD into it. Power it up... no good. Hard Drive ith dead; fried. Is there anything more we can do to try to recover the data off of it?

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Wingless Psycho Location: Metro Detroit, Mich, USA	Hard Drive recovery? Story time... My friend drops by earlier today and wants to get something off his external 80 gig HD and put it onto my laptop. So to save a minute or two of work, I decide to plug his HD in using my laptop plug. The HD, however, decides not to work. Comparing the power supply of the HD and the power supply of the laptop, the HD requires 12v input, and my laptop requires 20v. Basically I overpowered the HD. We opened up the external HD case, removed the actual HD, bought a 3.5" HD (IDE) > USB 2.0 box, and put the HD into it. Power it up... no good. Hard Drive ith dead; fried. Is there anything more we can do to try to recover the data off of it? __________________ Tommy Nibs is a funny word. So here I am, above palm trees, so straight and tall... You are, smaller getting smaller, but I still see... you. Jimmy Eat World - Goodbye Sky Harbor Last edited by Wingless; 11-27-2004 at 02:57 PM..