Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community  

Go Back   Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community > Interests > Tilted Technology


 
 
LinkBack Thread Tools
Old 11-27-2004, 02:55 PM   #1 (permalink)
Psycho
 
Wingless's Avatar
 
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..
Wingless is offline  
Old 11-27-2004, 04:08 PM   #2 (permalink)
Devils Cabana Boy
 
Dilbert1234567's Avatar
 
Location: Central Coast CA
Not with out spending a lot of money, you sure the drive is dead? As in no spinning, clicking ect? You probably just burnt out the motor, so the data is still there. Unless you have a few $1000, your SOL. you'll notice that the places that can do it, don’t list prices regularly.

Good luck.
__________________
Donate Blood!

"Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen
Dilbert1234567 is offline  
Old 11-27-2004, 05:12 PM   #3 (permalink)
Psycho
 
Location: North America
I wouldn't assume the hard drive is dead until you actually try it in a computer that works. To many things can go wrong with adapters and external crap even though the drive inside of them could actually be good.
catback is offline  
Old 11-27-2004, 07:12 PM   #4 (permalink)
Psycho
 
steveincolumbus's Avatar
 
Location: BFE, Kentucky
buy a identical hdd and swap contoler boards on them it should not have got the moter just the contoler if anything
steveincolumbus is offline  
Old 11-27-2004, 10:31 PM   #5 (permalink)
Psycho
 
Wingless's Avatar
 
Location: Metro Detroit, Mich, USA
Well, we power it up, and the motor spins momentarily before stopping... Don't know how much that will help, but yeah, more info?

It would be nice to get this HDD back cuz it actually was his primary drive, since he switches computers so often.
__________________
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
Wingless is offline  
Old 11-27-2004, 10:59 PM   #6 (permalink)
Devils Cabana Boy
 
Dilbert1234567's Avatar
 
Location: Central Coast CA
Quote:
Originally Posted by steveincolumbus
buy a identical hdd and swap contoler boards on them it should not have got the moter just the contoler if anything

it could work, granted that it is just the board, nothing more serious, this will ruin the warranty (duh)
__________________
Donate Blood!

"Love is not finding the perfect person, but learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." -Sam Keen
Dilbert1234567 is offline  
 

Tags
drive, hard, recovery


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 03:40 AM.

Tilted Forum Project

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0 PL2
© 2002-2012 Tilted Forum Project

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360