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WORST NIGHT EVER LAST NIGHT!

nick1985

nick1985

Lifer
ok, heres some backround. i have 2 40 gig hard drives. i have had these for close to 2 years now so you can imagine the amount of information i had collected over the years. well, i got home from college last night so i decided to re-install windows for break because there was a lot of viruses on campus going around and i wanted to be sure to not infect my home network, plus it was getting cluttered. so i took all of the stuff i wanted to save and put it onto one of my hard drives and then unplugged it. i put in my XP disc and restarted. **POP** W/ sparks. im like WTF?? i look and see the power connecter that i had unplugged from my hard drive had somehow reseated itself just a LITTLE bit on one of the 4 connecters...only it seated itself upside down. and we all know what that mean...i over-volted it. i lost BOTH hard drives and my cd burner for some reason 😕. 🙁🙁 right now im running with a 1.5 gig HD with 100 meg free. all i have is starcraft and AIM until i order a new HDD/burner.
 
Anyone know if there's a chance that it just killed the circuit board? Maybe there's a chance (again, I don't know how good of one) that the PCB acted as a fuse, protecting the motors and guts of the drive. If so, replace that with an identical drive's, and the data might be recoverable. Not cheap, but cheaper than data recovery.
I guess I am mildly thankful now that those HDD power connectors are so @#$%#$@$ tough to pull out when I need to do so.
 
My buddy swapped the circuit board on an older 8GB seagate (it was a b!tch to find the exact drive though) because a client of his needed some tax data off it. He swapped the circuit board and it worked fine (but he copied the data to a new drive anyway).
 
my seagate drive doesnt even spin...but my maxtor will, just it isnt detected. anything i can do for it? i tried the freezer trick, but that was a no-go.
 
MY HD'S FUBARD ON MY 3 MONTHS AGO.

oops sry for caps(at work) i lost 9 gigs of pr0n, 3 gigs of music, and 5 of software and movies




sucks i know'

gl getting your info back
 
Originally posted by: nick1985
black friday?
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The day after thanksgiving. Everything is really cheap, but be prepared to camp out in front of stores at like 4:30-5AM friday morning because that stuff goes fast! I need to get a video card, and possible a DVD burner, but with my luck they will be sold out.
 
Ouch ouch!!! That sucks big time!!
Well dvd-r/rw is the best solution especially in 2-3 months that the good models will probably drop their prices just a bit more.
If I were you (and that is what I do when I backup) Iwould made cd copies.I know it's more time consuming, but it's a safe solution.
(I'm thinking of an external hdd though really serious the last couple of months)
 
that IS pretty bad, but not near as bad as my atlanta trip. lemme dig up the post.

And yeah, there's gonna be dvd-burners for $89.95 on BF. And if it's any consolation, when my HDD died I ended up losing every ep of family guy, every ep of futurama, and every ep seasons 1-8 of the simpsons... all totaling around 25 gigs of drool-inducing hysteria...

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There's cliffnotes about 5 posts down if you don't feel like reading the crappy paragraph.
 
That's not that bad! How about dropping a computer down a flight of stairs when moving (and the computer was newly built less than 2 months ago).
 
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