Hard drive smoking, is it completly dead?  | | 
February 17th, 2009, 05:21 PM
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| Hard drive smoking, is it completly dead?
I am trying to recover data from an external drive that I have, first the drive stop working, so I took the drive out and plug it to a Voyager hard drive dock. I could read the data and started to copy the data. But then it stops, and the drive dock did not want to read the hard drive anymore :-(
today I tried another voyager drive dock, and smoke came out of the hard drive :-(
can you tell me if I can get the data out of the drive or not?
would freezing it work?
pretty scary the smoke 
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February 17th, 2009, 05:57 PM
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| | Millwright
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Welcome to TechIMO!
If smoke was involved, I don't think the freeze trick will work.
My guess is, one of those recovery services is your only chance now, but they are ridiculously expensive. 
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February 17th, 2009, 06:23 PM
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If you try it, make sure you put it in a sealed plastic bag with as little air in it as possible to cut down on condensation.
From what I understand that fix is for mechanical problems, not burned components.
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February 17th, 2009, 07:03 PM
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The "magic smoke" is generally a sign of dead.
Trust me, I go through hardware quicker then socks. | |
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February 17th, 2009, 07:29 PM
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Originally Posted by KarmaKiller  The "magic smoke" is generally a sign of dead.
Trust me, I go through hardware quicker then socks. | We don't want to hear about your smoking/fuming socks now karma  .
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February 18th, 2009, 10:35 AM
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Thanks guys!
it seems to me that the connection is burning, not the drive itself
can I have hope to recover anything? | |
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February 18th, 2009, 11:15 AM
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| | Millwright
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A short won't just heat up 1 part of a circuit, it will heat the whole circuit.
How adventurous are you? If there is a short in the HD now you run the risk of damaging your mother board.
The only way to know if freezing will work, is to try it.
Data recovery services will take the HD apart in a clean room and place the disk in another drive case or replace the bearings/ read head/ motor/ circuit board or what ever it needs.
If your data is valuable and irreplaceable then it can be worth it. You have to decide how much your data is worth, compared to the cost of recovery.
Last edited by stroyal : February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 AM.
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