hi i have a seagate hard drive which i bought with a hard disk drive player in luxembourg europe made by hmb 102. the player and hard disk were working fine until i plug in the wrong adapter into the player box(which contains the seagate hard disk drive) the output for the player was 12v, and i plugged in a 20v adapter. since then i can not get it to work. i have 2 of these players and have taken out the disk drive and tried it in the pther player a nd vice a verse, so i know its the hard disk and not the player. When i plug the player on with the hard drive connected it won't go on, if i unplug the yellow, 2 black and red cable from the player to the drive the player turns on, but doesn't read the hard drive. this means i can't do any tests on it to see what the problem is. Can you help me please.
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In short you probably have toasted the hard drive electronics. The 20V supply is likely to have burned out one or more of the components on the hard drive, possibly including the chips, drive head(s), actuator or motor. There are really only three choices:- 1. Throw out (or sell) the remains of the player. 2. Buy another hard drive of similar specification and replace the broken one. 3. Perform surgery. Do this at your OWN risk --- Do not blame me if it fails! If you have data on the drive you must have and don't want to give a lot of money to a data recovery specialist then try your own recovery as follows. i. Back up your working drive. ii. Very carefully detach the electronics board from the working drive and attach it to the faulty one - they must be the same make and model. (Should be if you have two players). iii. If you are lucky you should then be able to access the data on the previously broken drive. Copy off the data. iv. Return the working electronics to the first drive and bin the broken one. If at step iii there is still no response, you may have burned out the actuators. If so you could vary, very, vary carefully swap the head and motor assembly but you stand a very good chance of destroying both drives in the process if you do not have the correct equipment or get dirt in the mechanism. I personally have done this with PC drives but out of 5 attempts only 3 have been a success. Good luck. [Eb]
