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Data recovery from fried drive
Hi,
I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. |
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Should be able to find that at Home Depot or similar, Just so you know I have successfully performed the same recovery process
twice. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks, I'll have to keep my eyes out for a second hand drive on ebay. I assume no one sells these controller cards? BTW, Seagate have very annoying star screws on the circuit/controller board which needs a special screwdriver. I assume you can pick these up in most hardware stores? J. "Vincent" wrote in message ... i would think the data on the media is ok. Yeah, might try screwin on a new controller board. "John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. |
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Thanks Vincent - glad I now know the correct technical name. I would have
been going around asking for a 'star' screwdriver. J. "Vincent" wrote in message ... You'll very probably need a Torx ("star") screwdriver. You can engage Torx screws with Allen keys or a flathead driver of appropriate width, but that's not an optimal solution. Fortunately, Torx quarter-inch hex bits will do the job, and are cheap; you need just one hex bit driver to match, and they're cheap too. "John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. |
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Thanks David - glad to know you've done it twice already. That's
encouraging. J. "David B." wrote in message news:TnsJa.1022651$OV.1119423@rwcrnsc54... Should be able to find that at Home Depot or similar, Just so you know I have successfully performed the same recovery process twice. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- "John Smith" wrote in message ... Thanks, I'll have to keep my eyes out for a second hand drive on ebay. I assume no one sells these controller cards? BTW, Seagate have very annoying star screws on the circuit/controller board which needs a special screwdriver. I assume you can pick these up in most hardware stores? J. "Vincent" wrote in message ... i would think the data on the media is ok. Yeah, might try screwin on a new controller board. "John Smith" wrote in message ... Hi, I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. |
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John Smith wrote:
Hi, I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? Lots of people do this. Make sure it's the EXACT same model drive. I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. -- Are you registered as a bone marrow donor? You regenerate what you donate. You are offered the chance to donate only if you match a person on the recipient list. Call your local Red Cross and ask about registering to be a bone marrow donor. spam trap: replace shyah_right with hotmail when replying |
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Thanks, I've seen one cheapish on ebay.com in the US but none as yet on the
ebay UK site which, I am surprised to find, seems quite expensive for second-hand components. J. "spodosaurus" wrote in message ... John Smith wrote: Hi, I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago. I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the PC was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5 seconds later, the drive was fried. So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and go? I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the electronic circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could recover the data? Would this work? Lots of people do this. Make sure it's the EXACT same model drive. I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few years back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based product for such an event come on the market? J. -- Are you registered as a bone marrow donor? You regenerate what you donate. You are offered the chance to donate only if you match a person on the recipient list. Call your local Red Cross and ask about registering to be a bone marrow donor. spam trap: replace shyah_right with hotmail when replying |
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