Okay so long story short, I had a 1.5TB external hard drive some years ago, and one day when I plugged it in it just would not turn on.
I seemed to think at the time that it had shorted or had been fried.
I removed it from its enclosure and went to test it today.
I plugged it into the hot swap bay on my PC case, and when I turned my PC on it didn’t power up and a bit of smoke came out of the HDD.
My PC would then not power up, and after a minor heart attack I decided to disconnect the SATA cable for the hot swap bay, and now my computer works again (phew)
Which leads me to believe that the HDD has fried the hot swap bay.
I’ve read that Hard drives can be fixed by replacing the PCB’s.
Would this likely fix it? Or is it completely F****D?
I seemed to think at the time that it had shorted or had been fried.
I removed it from its enclosure and went to test it today.
I plugged it into the hot swap bay on my PC case, and when I turned my PC on it didn’t power up and a bit of smoke came out of the HDD.
My PC would then not power up, and after a minor heart attack I decided to disconnect the SATA cable for the hot swap bay, and now my computer works again (phew)
Which leads me to believe that the HDD has fried the hot swap bay.
I’ve read that Hard drives can be fixed by replacing the PCB’s.
Would this likely fix it? Or is it completely F****D?