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@#*#@%*@!#* BURNED MY HARD DRIVE

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Syringer

Lifer
So I was trying to install my old hd into a new system, but being the dumbass that I am, I put it in a really bad position, and I burned the hd..literally, to the point where I could smell smoke coming out of it.

I thought to myself, oh sh!t, please don't let it be my hard drive, anything else can be replaced, but not my HD.. and sure enough it was. You can see the brown/black spots near the end where the power cable is plugged in.

It didn't come close to the storage part of the HD though..so would it be possible to recover this data? I'll do it if it's cheap..otherwise it's just lost videos and mp3's..
 
I don't see how it's possible that you did this, unless you put it in an oven.... Explain what you did, where you put it...
 
he put it down where metal musta touched two contacts on the bottom of the circuit board. zap. u can try buying another hd and doing a manual swap of boards. voids all warrantees and is no garrantee. but if ur desperate.
 
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Excuse my dumb question, but did you verify that it no longer works?
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Yes, plugged it back in, computer won't detect it..

he put it down where metal musta touched two contacts on the bottom of the circuit board. zap. u can try buying another hd and doing a manual swap of boards. voids all warrantees and is no garrantee. but if ur desperate.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

Is there a professional out there that could do this?
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Excuse my dumb question, but did you verify that it no longer works?
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Yes, plugged it back in, computer won't detect it..

he put it down where metal musta touched two contacts on the bottom of the circuit board. zap. u can try buying another hd and doing a manual swap of boards. voids all warrantees and is no garrantee. but if ur desperate.
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Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

Is there a professional out there that could do this?
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Sure, Data Recovery companies... I'm thinking of a number between $700 and $5000. That will be the cost to recover your data. 😛
 
What Brand and Model drive is it? Like has been suggested and if the data is REALLY important, you can buy another drive just like it and swap the Circuit board from the new drive to the old one and it should work. What Drive is it?

If you do this don't let it touch any more Metal!!! I saw that happen 10 years ago with an old Quantum 120MB IDE. It only burned the ribbon cable to pieces but the board survived. the dood was lucky.
 
Originally posted by: Dennis Travis

If you do this don't let it touch any more Metal!!! I saw that happen 10 years ago with an old Quantum 120MB IDE. It only burned the ribbon cable to pieces but the board survived. the dood was lucky.
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Yeah, it would suck if he lost the 7 hours it took to download pong and all that ASCII porn from usenet.
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Excuse my dumb question, but did you verify that it no longer works?
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Yes, plugged it back in, computer won't detect it..

he put it down where metal musta touched two contacts on the bottom of the circuit board. zap. u can try buying another hd and doing a manual swap of boards. voids all warrantees and is no garrantee. but if ur desperate.
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

Is there a professional out there that could do this?
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Sure, Data Recovery companies... I'm thinking of a number between $700 and $5000. That will be the cost to recover your data. 😛
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My friend's mom lost an important drive (hardware failure, the old clicking drive) and her company sent it out for professional data recovery. Cost $2000.
 
Yep, I've crashed my HDs twice already.

Contacted a few Data Recovery companies, to discover that their prices are out of reach for personal users!

And you're not even sure they'll recover most of your data.

Not worth it.
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
It's a Maxtor 96147..60gb drive.

Is there a how-to guide on the internet or something?
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Not likely. Most data recovery involves physically taking the disk apart to get at the platters and read them that way. Meaning you would need a clean room to prevent *any* dust from getting on the platters, not to mention the equipment to read, bit for bit, the data off of the freestanding platter.

Will the drive spin-up at all?
 
You have to be a complete moron or have the worst luck in the world to fry a hard drive. If that happened to me, I'd sit in a rubber room during a lightning storm. I wonder if you tried to replace the hard drive while the system was off?
 
Originally posted by: Nebor
Originally posted by: Syringer
Originally posted by: mechBgon
Excuse my dumb question, but did you verify that it no longer works?
Click to expand...

Yes, plugged it back in, computer won't detect it..

he put it down where metal musta touched two contacts on the bottom of the circuit board. zap. u can try buying another hd and doing a manual swap of boards. voids all warrantees and is no garrantee. but if ur desperate.
Click to expand...

Yeah, that's pretty much what happened.

Is there a professional out there that could do this?
Click to expand...

Sure, Data Recovery companies... I'm thinking of a number between $700 and $5000. That will be the cost to recover your data. 😛
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At that price he can just buy songs from itunes to recover for the lost MP3's.🙂
 
data recovery is not cheap, and not terribly reliable.
but since you burned the pcb on the hdd, the platters are probably fine.. so we might be able to get some data back for a couple hundred bucks or so. (first level recovery)
 
Originally posted by: Syringer
It's a Maxtor 96147..60gb drive.

Is there a how-to guide on the internet or something?
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You shouldn't need a guide ... you can try buing an identical drive, unscrewing the board from the bottom of it, and putting that board on the new one. There aren't any real major tricks to it. Chances are you just fried the drives electronics and the data on the platters is OK.
 
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