Bye bye hdd

[Turd Furguson]

Well after tinkering around with my PSU volt mod, I rebooted my system accidently when I bumped the 12v POT when putting everything back together. Evidently I overvolted my system and the PSU shut off. Well after rebooting again, what's this? I don't hear my HDD spinning. I checked all the connectors. Still nothing. Tried different PSU molexs and zip. Not even my volt meter registers anything. I don't know if something got fried but this thing seems gone.

I had a lot of information on that HDD that I was going to be moving to my laptop today but my luck never goes that way. 13 gigs of Movies and some very important pics and word documents. *sigh*

Looks like I am on a laptop for a while.

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get power back to that drive? My DVD burner still powers up fine.

 

[Turd Furguson]

Well I manged to get power back to the HDD but no disk spinning. I wonder if the circuitry got fried or something.

 

[Xaotic]

You could try replacing the controller PCBA. You will need another HDD of the same size, model and preferrably the same firmware as a donor. Assuming the servo and actuator isn't blown, you should be ale to get the data.