Plugged my laptop cable into my seagate external hard drive by accident

[RuskyBFG]

Hi, I've looked around for information regarding my problem but only seen solutions for other brands.
I'm a total noob regarding computers really so code words for certain parts won't help me lol.
The problem - I was rushing about and put my laptop charger into my Seagate External Hard drive (code ST300003U2), it wasn't for longer than 30secs but obv the damage was already done, I've opened it all up so I can see the board with the power button, usb port and power socket on it and the actual hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160gb).
I've disconnected the hard drive and plugged the supply back in and the green light comes on (which is what it normally does), turned everything off then replugged the hard drive in again and power on... green light now blinks continuously.

Any help as to what to do would be great, thanks in advance.

 

[jakjawagon]

I wouldn't have thought it would have to be the same model of external drive. If you're lucky, you just damaged the USB-SATA bridge in the original external drive, in which case your data would be fine and accessible with any external hard drive enclosure/dock.

 

[RuskyBFG]

Hi anonymous1, apologies for not stating the laptop voltage/ampage supply, I thought with showing the information I processed it would be easy to assume I had blown something up haha! I had thought of just buying a 2nd hand unit and just changing the hard drive but have seen some posts that show it may stop certain things not working due to their settings/encryption/algorithm so wanted to check from the pros before I started messing about with it.

I don't currently have a Tower PC as I only work off my laptop, tablet and my touch screen all-in-one pc so I'm stuck for installing it at this moment in time.

Is their a way I can test it or modify it to help

 

[CompGee]

Buy an external enclosure that you can install hard drives in. If the drive fails to mount/spin up, you are going to have to send it off for data recovery.