A friend gave me a hard drive from her now non functional PC to see if I can get some data out of it. (an old Seagate PATA IDE drive) Upon connecting, however, when I turned my PC on, ghastly smelling smoke came out from where the Molex power connector was connected. I instantly turned it off and removed the drive.
Now what I want to know is, could this have been a fault of my hard drive, or is it a fault of my PSU, meaning all of my componenets are in danger? Even after that incident a few hours ago, my PC is still working without any problems. But I'm worried whether there's something wrong with my PSU and would cause my other components to go poof at a later time. Any way I could find out whether the problem is with the hard drive?
Now what I want to know is, could this have been a fault of my hard drive, or is it a fault of my PSU, meaning all of my componenets are in danger? Even after that incident a few hours ago, my PC is still working without any problems. But I'm worried whether there's something wrong with my PSU and would cause my other components to go poof at a later time. Any way I could find out whether the problem is with the hard drive?