Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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I'm completely unable to use my floppy any more
resurrecting a hard drive
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raleighnut
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How did you manage to reverse the polarity on a directional plug.This is my old hard drive.... it no longer works.
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The data on the disc should be fine as the drive was screwed by powering it with the wrong polarity... blowing the motor i guess.
Do any of you boffins know if it's possible to transfer the disc from this hard drive into another, similar case (from another old HD i have knocking about)? Would it have to be an identical case? i.e. same make (seagate), same capacity (160gb), same model number... or would any old 3.5" hard drive case do?
If not... is there any other way of getting the intact data out of a busted hard drive?
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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Then stick with your hard one.
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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had it in one of those external cradles one can buy of off Ebay... and the mains adaptor for that died... so I figured I'd just buy another of the cradles (same model) to replace the mains adaptor... it was only after I plugged it in did i realise it was the same model, but also slightly different, having the directional plug & corresponding socket wired differently.... any fool could have done it!How did you manage to reverse the polarity on a directional plug.
raleighnut
Legendary Member
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Avoid fleabay "bargains" and I'm certainly not going to post "well one did" but I bet someone will. I just sympathise, bin there then realise I'd f***ed up 
but never with computer stuff
but never with computer stuffI have an optical one - does that make me a Voyeur?
... and I'll bet you only have a 3.5 " floppy as well!
I can remember when an 8" floppy was standard, this then became 5 3/4" before reducing to 3"
Allegedly Alan Sugar preferred a a 3 1/2 "
We have an IT nerd at work that has on more than one occasion, at his desk, stripped one drive down and swapped the disc bits with another to recover data, we have about 250laptops out and about in the field and data recovery is a common thing, even though backups are regular there are regular flyers away for a week or so at a time and backups get missed etc. He is of the opinion that that it is largely a load of bollocks spun by data recovery firms to up the price with respect to clean room and surgical environments etc. etc...
raleighnut
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Tight talentless f*ckwit..... Amstrad
Trevor_P
Senior Member
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- Hawkinge Kent
DON'T be tempted to open the drive at this stage. It's likely the PCB (circuit board) thats been fried and not the motor. What you want is another identical drive whose PCB is still ok. Just swap out the PCB which won't entail opening the drive.
Done this myself on numerous occasions, usually successfully.
Done this myself on numerous occasions, usually successfully.
Fnaar
Smutmaster General
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I may have to go digital
Doh! Even a total numpty like me backs everything up on Dropbox. When my hard drive fails all I lose is my settings, and that is is annoying enough.
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MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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- Lancaster... the little city.
FTFY.
No, I'm anything but a geek - I'm still using XP, for instance! The reason that I now rely on Dropbox to store all my working data is that I have previously lost the lot when a hard drive failed. And failed with plenty of warning.
JoeyB
Go on, tilt your head!
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No chance. I tried this once and got nowhere fast.
