I accidentally used the wrong power supply for a USB Hub, and so fried the usb port on my Seagate Expansion Desktop 3TB (case model srd00f2). The case no longer powers up.
I'm hoping the disk inside and its contents are fine - but as Seagate use a 4096 byte sector size and then the case firmware presents it as 512 byte sectors, I don't think I can just take out the disk and put it in another case or computer.
Can a disk recovery tool (have used linux recovery tools before) see the 4096 byte sector size if connected directly via sata2, or placed in an external case?
Is there an empty hdd case I could buy that will mimic Seagate's 4096->512 byte sector masking?
Or should I just buy a same/similar Seagate 3TB disk, open it up and put the old disk in? (Probably cost $150 AUD, and will void the warranty on the new purchase, but seems likely to work).
Thanks in advance.
I'm hoping the disk inside and its contents are fine - but as Seagate use a 4096 byte sector size and then the case firmware presents it as 512 byte sectors, I don't think I can just take out the disk and put it in another case or computer.
Can a disk recovery tool (have used linux recovery tools before) see the 4096 byte sector size if connected directly via sata2, or placed in an external case?
Is there an empty hdd case I could buy that will mimic Seagate's 4096->512 byte sector masking?
Or should I just buy a same/similar Seagate 3TB disk, open it up and put the old disk in? (Probably cost $150 AUD, and will void the warranty on the new purchase, but seems likely to work).
Thanks in advance.
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