wiring a IDE HDD to power adapter

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alankearn

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I have a 400 gb IDE hard drive with a lot of films on it. I don't want to mess the hard drive up so can someone tell me if safe to wire it up with these components

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The power adapter 12v 2amps is from a broken Maxor 500 gb exterior hard drive so it should be capable of running the IDE HDD.
The thing that worries me is the wiring from the Molex socket which ones do I connect to the power adapter, red and black or yellow and black. The other thing is I am presuming that black is earth so if I get polarity from the power pack wrong can it do any damage to the hard drive.
 
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Your issue is going to be that most drives require separate voltages for the spindle motor and the drive electronics, and you are not going to be able to get that from your adapter directly wired into a Molex connector.

On your Maxtor external drive, does it even try to power on? You may be able to switch the drive inside it, since an external drive is just an internal hard drive with an adapter board and case.

If that won't work, you can buy a cheap enclosure from Newegg or similar store that will convert your IDE drive to an external drive just like the Maxtor, with no risk of damaging it.

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The Maxtor drive was dropped so will not work. The power pack (that is shown only) has 2 wires to to the Maxtor drive that is why I thought it might be capable of driving the other drive.

Thanks for your reply
 
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