Did I fry my hd or my circuit board?

[sindows]

I have a laptop IDE drive which I took out and accidentally realigned the connector incorrectly. I put the drive back in the laptop and booted up but nothing happened. I took a spare drive and booted up from that so its not something thats wrong with the motherboard.

Is there a chance that I can still recover files via new circuit board or did I fry the entire hd?

 

[Elixer]

How do you connect the 40pin connector incorrectly? It is keyed so it only hooks up one way...
Anyway, impossible to tell if the HD is screwed or not. It may be possible to replace the circuit board (if you can find one), but the best bet is to use a professional recovery service, if the data is really important.

 

[C1]

Make sure that you didnt just bend or deform a pin on the HDD connector.

 

[sindows]

I aligned it correctly, just missed an entire row. Not sure how it happened as I've done this hundreds of times...

The pins on the hdd seem to be fine.

 

[C1]

If its an IDE then it might be possible that something was damaged thru applying power where it shouldnt be. As I recall, on notebook HDDs the power supply pins are the last pins on the end of the connector.

 

[Russwinters]

Got a Digital multi meter?

 

[PottedMeat]

http://pinouts.ru/HD/Ata44Internal_pinout.shtml

It seems like it may be okay. Misalignment by an entire row still lines up the +5V supply lines to the drive, if it hooked it to ground or backwards, then you would have fried it.

 

[Russwinters]

Every single pin has a different purpose, So even if it is aligned correctly, but is shifted it can cause issues depending on what pins are where.


Get a DMM, then that a photo of the PCB of the disk.


I will guide you through and we will see how serious the problem is.



Regards,