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Hard Drive Repair

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riley4077

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After turning on my desktop my power supply shorted out and had to be replaced. No big deal I thought. After replacing the power supply and turning the computer on none of my optical or hard drives were powering up. I guess when the last power supply shorted out the output spiked and has fried all my 3.5" and 5.25" drives.

In an attempt to rule out the motherboard I tried some of these drives in an external firewire/USB 2.0 enclosure. They won't work in the external enclosure either. So I am guessing that the data is still intact on the hard drives. But, i can't get to the data since the drive won't power up.

So here's my question. Anybody have a recommendation on who to send the hard drives to be repaired? I'd like to try to fix it myself but at this point I don't know what to look for.

Anyway, I'd love to recover some data....

Thanks for any suggestions!!
 
If the motor and drive read/write heads are ok, it's possible that the logic board on the bottom of the drive was what was fried. I don't know of any easy way of determining if this is the cause of the problems though.
The only way is to find another drive that is exactly the same (I don't think that the model number is all that has to match, maybe firmware too, not sure though) and swap the circuit boards. This will of course void the warranty of both drives, but it MIGHT let you get data off the one drive. But if the motor or read/write circuitry in the drive is dead, you're likely out of luck, unless you got some money laying around to pay for professional data recovery.
 
Thanks for the information everyone.

I've removed the hard drives from my PC and noticed the 2 Maxtor drives have a couple pins blown on the bottom of the drive. The only thing I can read on teh drive is "Smooth"

So I am hoping that Jeff7's suggestion will work.

The logic boards are the same part number but the 200 GB drive is rev 3 and the 120 GB drive is rev 2...maybe I'll check with my IT department

Thanks again for the help
 
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