accidentally plugged in my laptop power cord into samsung HD - now computer won't recognize drive

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Boogieman_WD


As the others have suggested, you could really take out the drive out of its enclosure in order to check if it works properly when connected internally. However, as already mentioned, the drive might have a proprietary connector and you might not be able to use it with a standard SATA connection. Furthermore, taking the drive out of its enclosure voids the warranty. If the HDD has hardware encryption, you won't be able to get to your data without its original enclosure, even if the drive itself is working fine and the enclosure turns out to be at fault.

There are some risks so by knowing everything that I've written, it's up to you to...
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Boogieman_WD

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Hey there, Mitchell.

It's pretty unfortunate that this would happen. Give it a try with a different computer as well, but it's very likely that you might have fried the PCB. If you have important data on that drive, I'd recommend that you go straight for a data recovery company or get in touch with the HDD manufacturer's customer support for further advice.

Hope that helps.
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Thank you - the drive lights up, do you think taking the drive out of the case might help?

 
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If its an external HDD you might have only fried the sata pcd. Like Mitchell said try it with a different pc and USE cmd with command diskpart followed by list disk to see if it shows up on computer.
 
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I would look to see if the drive can be shucked (removed from case)

Because most likely you've destroyed the actual enclosure circuit but there's a chance the drive inside might be fine.

Watch out, because some newer drives have the enclosure built-into the hard drive, meaning you can't remove the drive and put it inside your pc.
 
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Pretty much all new WD 2.5" drives do have the actual HDD and SATA-USB board in one unit, but most of the Seagate ones are just connected to the board and you can remove the drive itself and use it in a system or external case.
 
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As the others have suggested, you could really take out the drive out of its enclosure in order to check if it works properly when connected internally. However, as already mentioned, the drive might have a proprietary connector and you might not be able to use it with a standard SATA connection. Furthermore, taking the drive out of its enclosure voids the warranty. If the HDD has hardware encryption, you won't be able to get to your data without its original enclosure, even if the drive itself is working fine and the enclosure turns out to be at fault.

There are some risks so by knowing everything that I've written, it's up to you to decide if you want to take the chance and take the drive out of its original enclosure.
 
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