I have a harddrive which was fried when I turned on my computer one day. Now it won't turn on.?
Seagate 250 GB HD
I did see some smoke and smelt burnt silicon on the harddrive. I know that my power supply works fine because when I unhook the harddrive and turn on the computer it works fine. Can someone explain what I can do to retrieve my data from it?
Please don't tell me the obvious about data recovery and risky disk to disk surgery. I also don't want to void the warranty because it's 5 years and I still have a good 4 and a 1/2 years left to go and data recovery is to expensive. Also, computer amateurs don't reply because I'm not a total computer idiot as seeing that I built my own computer.
Seagate 250GB HD
Are there any myths you've heard about for recovering data from drives?
You are SOL if you don't want to take the drive to a recovery expert. They charge more just to get an estimate than it costs for a new drive.
If you want to risk the cost of a new drive. Buy an identical Seagate 250 GB HD.
Mark the bad HD controller with a little dot(so things don't mixed up). Remove the controller card from the bad drive and set it aside. Then remove the controller from the new drive and install it on the bad drive.
You have a 50-50 chance that the "fixed" drive will either work or burn up. If it works you'll need a third drive handy to dump the "bad" drives contents to.
Put all the drives back together with their original parts. You'll either have 1 or 2 drives to send in for warranty repair. This is a hell of a lot cheaper than the $2000+ a data recovery service will charge.
So how much is you data worth to you?
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