Very worried... I have my whole computer life backed up onto a newish hard drive, commercial projects, archived family home videos etc... today after 8 months of no use, i connected up the hard drive (externally) - which did involve putting the 4 serial ATA wire colours manuall into the power connector sockets... I turned it on, and nothing happened. THen after a few seconds a high pitched faint squeeling starts coming out and a trace of smoke. I heard no movement of the motor start up. ...Hopefully only the PCB has fried?
I don't know how it managed to fry. Never happened to me before. I connected the two power connectors carefully looking at this diagram:
http://www.bargaincell.com/images/products_large/cab/cabsat023.jpg
and wrote down the following colour connections:
4 = yellow 1 = red 2 = redBlack 3 = yellowBlack
2 and 3 meant the black nearest the red or yellow.
I've done this type of connection before many times over the years without a problem.
I looked up on YouTube quickly and found a guy saying that the PCB of an equal model hard drive can be swapped over with the fried one to sort it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnmcbfagLA
I hope so!!!
Suggestions? Many thanks.
I don't know how it managed to fry. Never happened to me before. I connected the two power connectors carefully looking at this diagram:
http://www.bargaincell.com/images/products_large/cab/cabsat023.jpg
and wrote down the following colour connections:
4 = yellow 1 = red 2 = redBlack 3 = yellowBlack
2 and 3 meant the black nearest the red or yellow.
I've done this type of connection before many times over the years without a problem.
I looked up on YouTube quickly and found a guy saying that the PCB of an equal model hard drive can be swapped over with the fried one to sort it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnmcbfagLA
I hope so!!!
Suggestions? Many thanks.