I Blew up my Hard Drive

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Yep - and it was my fault too.:(

Bought a 1TB Drive, Mobo doesn't support it.
So I tried to Use my Dusty Newer SLi Mobo, but was kept away because it usually gave a lot of problems...

Did the whole CPU, 3D Card, Ram transplant - and got it booting into bios.
I connect 1 hdd (250GB) - not working
Try another 250GB, not working either?:confused:

now I know this mobo gave hdd problems in different configurations, so i connected my 250GB and 320GB, and they were laying ontop of each other, as pc part were everywhere.

Not working either??:confused:

I decide to pick up the 320GB while the pc is on, to see if it's spinning atleast

*Spark*, "FiZzLe SoUnD", [[Smell of Burnt Plastic]] - all 3 of my senses telling me that something just blew - the circuit board.

Damn - i can see some chip's wiring had fizzled off.:eek:

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Stuff connecting the 1TB, i need to check if the 320GB is working! I reconnect the old mobo, and all drives work except the 320GB - The one that had EVERYTHING Important on it. Great.

If I swop the board with the same Seagate 320GB HDD Board, will I be able to get my files back?:(
 
Ouch - kark one man. 320gigs of pr0n is going to be hard to replace.
 
DJK said:
Ouch - kark one man. 320gigs of pr0n is going to be hard to replace.
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it's much worse man

ALL My Coding / Projects ever

ALL My 3D Scenes, renders and 3D Models and Textures

All my Software and Utilities

All my Mp3's

All my Pictures (and personal Friends/Family Pics)

Damn. The one drive I couldn't lose - the others have stuff I can easilly get again - this one had my own personal stuff. bummer man.:(
 
Keeper said:
If I swop the board with the same Seagate 320GB HDD Board, will I be able to get my files back?:(
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Yes, that should work.

Ben Rockwood has a post called Hard Drive Recovery 101, in which he notes:

I've run into 3 major types of drive failure:

1. PCB Failure: A case in which the PCB has been "fried". This happened dramtically once when connected an IDE drive to a system and let the disk rest, upside down, ontop of the case. It ran fine for aminute and then pop/spark there was a hole burned in a chip on the PCB. In this case the only solution is to go to eBay and buy an identical drive and swap the PCB.
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The entire post is a good read.

Good luck!
 
if only the boards fried replacing it with the same model from another drive it will work.
 
I'm interested to know why the board fried - was there a short circuit on the bottom HDD case? Was it your mobo? How old is the drive?

Very strange indeed...
 
MAKE SURE IT HAS THE SAME MODEL NUMBER... otherwise it wont work from what i understand... The data should all still be there..
 
Keeper i would suggest investing in a dvd writer and some dvd's. Important stuff you back up the porno you can afford to lose :p
 
howardb said:
I'm interested to know why the board fried - was there a short circuit on the bottom HDD case? Was it your mobo? How old is the drive?

Very strange indeed...
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I was resting the 1 HDD ontop of the other HDD, (Circuitry facing each other) When i picked it up, something must of touched!

Luckilly i didn't blow up both of them!

thanks for the info guys - much appreciated!
 
Keeper said:
it's much worse man

ALL My Coding / Projects ever

ALL My 3D Scenes, renders and 3D Models and Textures

All my Software and Utilities

All my Mp3's

All my Pictures (and personal Friends/Family Pics)

Damn. The one drive I couldn't lose - the others have stuff I can easilly get again - this one had my own personal stuff. bummer man.:(
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1. Backups? Backup backup backup is the word my china.
2. All your MP3s? If they are legal you should be able to get them back by ripping your cds again or re-downloading them from your account.
:D
 
killadoob said:
Keeper i would suggest investing in a dvd writer and some dvd's. Important stuff you back up the porno you can afford to lose :p
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Good try. I wrote a load of data on a DVD in December, used it once or twice in January, took the DVD out in July.... DVD didn't work. 75% of the files have been corrupted. DVDs don't always last as long as they should... and this was a Sony dvd. First time I had a problem with one of them.
 
Froot i have never in my life had a damaged dvd.

sounds like isolated case to me, i mean if you have a dvd back up plus stuff on your hdd the chances of the dvd and hdd both being corrupt are slim to not possible.

I have all my work files and important files backed up on 3 hdd's and dvd, mp3's movies etc i don't care if i lose those, nothing a bit of usenexting won't get back.
 
I backup stuff that doesn't change - but my software/utils/pictures folders do.
i listen to my mp3's so thats why they are on the drive.
my projects / 3D stuff also change.

yep - DVD's can't be trusted either.


I think i'm gonna keep one of the 250GB HDD's in my cubboard with a backup of my important files, etc...

Tip: *NEVER* pick up a drive when it is on, if the chips touch anything metal - Boom!
 
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