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I think I just fried 2 hard drives. any reason for optimism?

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gellfexx

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It was late, I was tired. I was a f****ng idiot.
I needed to make a floppy boot disk for my wife's ancient laptop.
My floppy drive went wacko, and I reached into my open case and pulled the power plug on it.
Then I attempted to reinsert it.
Power went down. I guess something grounded.

It appears that the 2 hard drives that shared a power line with the floppy are doa. when put on a definitely working line they don't spin upon booting up.

A total of 280 gigs, I would really like some of the data on them.
Am I SOL? Or is there some magic trick?

Crap.
 
I'd disconnect the controller cable first to determine if the drives still actually spin, if so, then there's hope. 🙂

Next, I'd check the jumper setting on my primary drive to make it a Single Drive only, and boot up with just it. If it boots, then you're up to 50%, if not, then trying the other won't make any difference because it's not likely bootable anyway. At that point, I'd put each drive in another PC and see if I could access the data that way. 😉
 
Do you mean that the controller cable could be keeping it from spinning?

That cable & power work fine on a cdr drive.
 
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