Hard Drive - No Power to Drive - why?

slaterzaslaterza
edited July 2007 in Hardware
I have 2 identical Samsung HD160JJ (160/7200/8m SATA) drives and one of them just died. No noise, no complaining, nothing - just lost power.

Now - this is my "backup drive" so like everyone else - I did not have a backup of this "backup drive".

Anyone have any ideas as to how a drive would lose power?
Can I take apart the other working identical drive that I have and see if something can be swapped out - to allow it to at least turn on?

I could send it to a data recovery place but they want $300.00 US bucks to recover the data. I'd reather get a new Video card... : )


Thoughts, suggestions? Other than no power, the drive works :)

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2007
    Swap the logic boards. That's your only real hope.
  • slaterzaslaterza
    edited July 2007
    Thrax wrote:
    Swap the logic boards. That's your only real hope.


    Thx, I'll try that...hope I know what I am doing :)
  • slaterzaslaterza
    edited July 2007
    slaterza wrote:
    Thx, I'll try that...hope I know what I am doing :)

    I was able to swap the logic board off of an identical drive and it worked. Pulled my data, threw out the other drive and kept the working one.

    Thx for your responses.

    Also - called Data recovery, man...stuff is expensive. I saved myself around 400 to 1200 US dollars...
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