Any way to recover a harddrive?

[kitkit201]

Stayed up long hours last night, so this morninger, I was trying to put in my new harddrive, but I inverted the molex power connector the wrong way, and now when my harddrive boots up, the computer hangs. Taking off the harddrive from the power connector solves everything, so my harddrive is the problem.

Any solutions on what I can do about it?

 

[mechBgon]

Chalk that one up to experience and buy another hard drive, bro 🙁

 

[LTC8K6]

On any drive I have ever seen, you'd need a hammer to connect the power connector backwards. It will only go in one way as far as I know.

 

[Motero]

If you have a similar harddrive, swap the controller boards and see if the problem is resolved.

 

[Paperlantern]

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
On any drive I have ever seen, you'd need a hammer to connect the power connector backwards. It will only go in one way as far as I know.

as i was reading his post, thats what i was thinking, any molex connector is beveled on one side, how in the EFF did you get it in upsidedown?

 

[kitkit201]

Originally posted by: Paperlantern

Originally posted by: LTC8K6
On any drive I have ever seen, you'd need a hammer to connect the power connector backwards. It will only go in one way as far as I know.

as i was reading his post, thats what i was thinking, any molex connector is beveled on one side, how in the EFF did you get it in upsidedown?

It's a Dell, and I somehow got it inside, just with a little push.. I tell you, Dells is the worse!!

 

[Paperlantern]

you musta crammed it cuz a molex connector will NOT go in upside down, seriously, unless you like bend it and make it fit...
and Dells really rock to work on, no screws, everything is clips, you can swap all parts in most of them in less than 5 minutes (even motherboard), most of the drives take 30 seconds

 

[TheStu]

See here is the issue.... the molex is an industry standard.... even if dell uses proprietary PUSs (do they still do that?) the connectors don't change... and it isn't as iff the Hard Drives are specially built.... so....

And I agree Papaerlantern Dells are awesome to work on... In my old dell Mini-tower I think it had 7 screws total... 5 for the PSU and 2 for the HDD.... it was great.