My friend got an external harddrive. he accidentally plugged in my laptop powercord to it which is 19v and the drive only takes 12v. so ovbiously now, it wont power on because i think i surged it. my questions are, could it be that all the data contained was wiped out or its just a matter of either changing a fuse or something to do with the power?
2006-10-17 12:20:34 · 1 answers · asked by ll_Zodiaco.Piton_ll 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
The hard drive itself is probably salvageable. There will be a voltage regulator and lots of delicate circuits in the external drive case, all of which are between the hard drive and the power supply. Even if there isn't a fuse device designed to blow, the power surge would probably fry the internals and short out before it reached the drive. The external bay is probably toast, but you can open the case and remove the drive. Install it into the computer directly, then see if you can access the data. It should work as an internal drive, but the external bay that contained it is probably trash.
2006-10-17 12:26:30 · answer #1 · answered by antirion 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋