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Update: Fried HDD?
Posted on 2/2/15 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 2/2/15 at 2:57 pm
Geniuses of the TB - I was using my Vantec IDE/SATA to USB 2.0 adapter to transfer some files from an associates old HDD and the drive was working just fine before I got ahold of it 
Anyway, it did not click or anything so I tried another one of my old personal drives and once the power was put to it, it started smoking so I immediately removed it.
Edit: Update - Just received both of the PCB's and swapped them out..
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! It worked and all files are intact thankfully. If anyone needs a PCB board, I highly recommend donordrives.com.
After doing some research, it appears that there was an overvoltage of some sort (which means the Vantac POS is junk).
I read you can swap out the PCB of the drive and it may work again. Can anyone confirm/negate this? FWIW, it's two Fujitsu laptop drives (one is 100GB and the other is 250GB I believe).
Any help would be appreciated to TIA
Anyway, it did not click or anything so I tried another one of my old personal drives and once the power was put to it, it started smoking so I immediately removed it.
Edit: Update - Just received both of the PCB's and swapped them out..
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y! It worked and all files are intact thankfully. If anyone needs a PCB board, I highly recommend donordrives.com.
After doing some research, it appears that there was an overvoltage of some sort (which means the Vantac POS is junk).
I read you can swap out the PCB of the drive and it may work again. Can anyone confirm/negate this? FWIW, it's two Fujitsu laptop drives (one is 100GB and the other is 250GB I believe).
Any help would be appreciated to TIA
This post was edited on 2/4/15 at 3:10 pm
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Posted on 2/2/15 at 8:19 pm to idlewatcher
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once the power was put to it, it started smoking
That is usually a bad sign.
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:34 am to foshizzle
quote:
That is usually a bad sign.
Sometimes yes, but not all the time or even usually.
FF to :40 secs
Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:12 am to idlewatcher
So replace the PCB
Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:47 pm to idlewatcher
quote:
Sometimes yes, but not all the time or even usually.
Good video, and point taken.
But recovery shouldn't depend on existing, on-site hardware. It isn't that hard to recover from having your computer vanish into thin air if you do it right.
Posted on 2/4/15 at 2:36 pm to foshizzle
quote:
It isn't that hard to recover from having your computer vanish into thin air if you do it right.
Man, I'm hoping so otherwise we'll both be SOL.
FedEx guy should be here within 20 mins so I'll have the boards and swap them out.
Posted on 2/4/15 at 2:40 pm to foshizzle
quote:quote:That is usually a bad sign.
once the power was put to it, it started smoking
Yeah, everybody knows electronics run on smoke. Hard to get it back in once it comes out.
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