Rocketmagnet
Programmer
Hi all,
I recently fried the electronics on my Hard Drive. Can anyone help?
Hard Drive is: Maxtor 120Gb Diamond Plus 9 SATA
The Cause: I had a FDD powered on the same power cable as my HDD. The PCB of the FDD touched the metal of the PC case, causing the HDD to fail. The HDD would no longer spin up, and was not recognised by the BIOS. Looking at the geometry of the accident, I believe that the 0v and 5v lines were shorted together.
Tried So Far: Purchased new HDD of the same model number & swapped the Electronics over. My HDD now spins up, and is recognised by the BIOS, but it will not boot, and FDisk gives "Fixed Disk Error". I don't know if it's the same firmware version.
Before I shell out £100s on recovery, I would like to see if I can get this working myself. I have several years experience doing tricky surface mount soldering assembly and repair. Surely this must be just a case of a single blown component, which can be replaced with one from the new HDD.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Hugo Elias
I recently fried the electronics on my Hard Drive. Can anyone help?
Hard Drive is: Maxtor 120Gb Diamond Plus 9 SATA
The Cause: I had a FDD powered on the same power cable as my HDD. The PCB of the FDD touched the metal of the PC case, causing the HDD to fail. The HDD would no longer spin up, and was not recognised by the BIOS. Looking at the geometry of the accident, I believe that the 0v and 5v lines were shorted together.
Tried So Far: Purchased new HDD of the same model number & swapped the Electronics over. My HDD now spins up, and is recognised by the BIOS, but it will not boot, and FDisk gives "Fixed Disk Error". I don't know if it's the same firmware version.
Before I shell out £100s on recovery, I would like to see if I can get this working myself. I have several years experience doing tricky surface mount soldering assembly and repair. Surely this must be just a case of a single blown component, which can be replaced with one from the new HDD.
Any ideas?
Many thanks
Hugo Elias