Oh noes!
If someone called jim (names changed to protect the stupid) happend to get a little muddled up and put 12v down the 5v line and 5v down the 12v line on his harddrive, would it ever work again?
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Oh noes!
If someone called jim (names changed to protect the stupid) happend to get a little muddled up and put 12v down the 5v line and 5v down the 12v line on his harddrive, would it ever work again?
"And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."
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Is it smoking? If so call Quitline...
They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the evening,
we will remember them
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Probably. I'd imagine that HDD controller PCBs would have over-voltage protection.
The disk platters themselves will be just fine, so if the data is mission-critical, it'll be recoverable.
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Not if there was smoke coming out.... Hope you'd done a backup recently...Originally Posted by Winter
Oh noes!
If someone called jim (names changed to protect the stupid) happend to get a little muddled up and put 12v down the 5v line and 5v down the 12v line on his harddrive, would it ever work again?
If you have critical info on the drive - you may be able to get the control board replaced... There are some computer forensic places that can recover data off pretty much anything... ...for a price!
Does it even spin up anymore?
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Its an external sata drive.
When i put power into it, the power brick starts this mysterous clicking noise, and its status LED clicks on and off the the tune aswell.
When I remove the drive from the cage, and just power up the external adapter bit, this doesn't happen, so I'm inclined to think the drives magic smoke got out..
There was 100gig of music and some farking important photos on it.
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I'd imagine that you should be able to send the drive back to the manufacturer for servicing and a controller PCB replacement.
What brand is the drive?
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- mikey
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You could always buy another drive of the same type and swap the controllers cards over
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yeah, guess thats what I'll have to do.
Bugger!
"And, look, the luscious and fecund fronds of the Silver Fern has given brilliant birth to a stupendous fruit! A red Hondaberry, desposited by a lesser known species of Plonker Gittus Maximus Idiotus."
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Its a Western Digital.
Does that mean I'll have to send it somewhere western America? eesh.
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I have no idea.
I'd get on the phone to a data recovery contractor or two and see what they say. (The Yellow Pages are your friend.) They'd be bound to have some good advice, or perhaps even a reasonable quote to sort it out for you.
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- mikey
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Cheers mate, good to know what my options are.
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Western Digital are pretty common... why not check Compulink, Gamma, or one of the other retail outlets to see if they have that model?
http://www.compulink.co.nz
http://www.gamma.co.nz
Swapping controller cards isn't a biggie...
Forensic recovery is also possible - there's an outfit in Shortland St in Auck that does that sort of work. It's not cheap though. They usually perform recovery and analysis for prosecutions, and for companies that need to recover high value data.
Can't recall the company name - they're in the Forsyth Barr building.
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do you have contents insurance?Oh noes!
If someone called jim (names changed to protect the stupid) happend to get a little muddled up and put 12v down the 5v line and 5v down the 12v line on his harddrive, would it ever work again?
Claim claim claim ......just wait till a storm or high winds
say the power did it
Thats why you pay insurance "isnt it"
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http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/P...-123272855.htm
Yes, it's a blatant plug.
Insurance won't pay for recovery, just the hard drive and associated labour to reinstall it. The excess won't make it worthwhile.
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well the thought was there
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