Hard drive horror story X2

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I had a Western Digital mod.WD1200 120gb and a mod. WD600 60 gb both
working fine until my power supply died. After replacing the power
supply bios will not detect either drive. I tried them in other
computers with the same result. The only thing I can assume is that
the power supply put out too much voltage and burned something
out on the logic boards.
Does anyone know if there is a fuse or resistor (hopefully) that blows
in case of over-voltage in these models? Also, the logic boards on
these drives are super easy to remove with no wires to unsolder.
If I get a working drive of the same model and exchange boards could
I recover my data? Is there anything that could blow inside the sealed
drive with too much voltage?
I had some backup but I was also backing up from drive to drive
thinking "what are the odds both drives would fail at the same time"?
Apparently, not that high.

 

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Maybe the IDE controller is screwed up, try a known good drive on that same
cable.

--Dan

"RM" <rm3@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
news:vktnj0h3nm0ug2sepscb4vt61glvsjui65@4ax.com...
> I had a Western Digital mod.WD1200 120gb and a mod. WD600 60 gb both
> working fine until my power supply died. After replacing the power
> supply bios will not detect either drive. I tried them in other
> computers with the same result. The only thing I can assume is that
> the power supply put out too much voltage and burned something
> out on the logic boards.
> Does anyone know if there is a fuse or resistor (hopefully) that blows
> in case of over-voltage in these models? Also, the logic boards on
> these drives are super easy to remove with no wires to unsolder.
> If I get a working drive of the same model and exchange boards could
> I recover my data? Is there anything that could blow inside the sealed
> drive with too much voltage?
> I had some backup but I was also backing up from drive to drive
> thinking "what are the odds both drives would fail at the same time"?
> Apparently, not that high.

 

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Nevermind, I just saw that you tested them in another known good PC. Oh
well.

--Dan

"dg" <dan_gus@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Maybe the IDE controller is screwed up, try a known good drive on that
same
> cable.
>
> --Dan
>
> "RM" <rm3@rocketmail.com> wrote in message
> news:vktnj0h3nm0ug2sepscb4vt61glvsjui65@4ax.com...
> > I had a Western Digital mod.WD1200 120gb and a mod. WD600 60 gb both
> > working fine until my power supply died. After replacing the power
> > supply bios will not detect either drive. I tried them in other
> > computers with the same result. The only thing I can assume is that
> > the power supply put out too much voltage and burned something
> > out on the logic boards.
> > Does anyone know if there is a fuse or resistor (hopefully) that blows
> > in case of over-voltage in these models? Also, the logic boards on
> > these drives are super easy to remove with no wires to unsolder.
> > If I get a working drive of the same model and exchange boards could
> > I recover my data? Is there anything that could blow inside the sealed
> > drive with too much voltage?
> > I had some backup but I was also backing up from drive to drive
> > thinking "what are the odds both drives would fail at the same time"?
> > Apparently, not that high.
>
>

 

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RM wrote:
> If I get a working drive of the same model and exchange boards could
> I recover my data? Is there anything that could blow inside the sealed
> drive with too much voltage?

Quite possible. I've done this once and was able to recover my data from
a drive with a fried circuit board (the board died of overvoltage also).

good luck,
Nils