Hiya TH Community!
To clarify my topic title, my hard drive kinda..err..melted. My computer in general just wouldn't turn on, so I was troubleshooting by testing each component and see where the problem originated, and it stops at the hard drive. So I take the hard drive out and check the connections and whatnot, and the gold pins had black stuff on it..So I scrape that off, and plug in the power and test it..Turns on, hard drive spins and everything, but my connector started spewing smoke and I turned it off and let it cooled down and removed the connector. Melted my connector..and it smells horrible.
I will be ordering a new hard drive shortly, and my question for you guys and girls is this: Is it possible to transfer data from my old hard drive to a new one, without having power connected to the old one? This was just up and out of the blue and didn't have the time to back up all my files.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
To clarify my topic title, my hard drive kinda..err..melted. My computer in general just wouldn't turn on, so I was troubleshooting by testing each component and see where the problem originated, and it stops at the hard drive. So I take the hard drive out and check the connections and whatnot, and the gold pins had black stuff on it..So I scrape that off, and plug in the power and test it..Turns on, hard drive spins and everything, but my connector started spewing smoke and I turned it off and let it cooled down and removed the connector. Melted my connector..and it smells horrible.
I will be ordering a new hard drive shortly, and my question for you guys and girls is this: Is it possible to transfer data from my old hard drive to a new one, without having power connected to the old one? This was just up and out of the blue and didn't have the time to back up all my files.
Please let me know.
Thank you!
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