When connecting a SATA drive, you might think that the interface is pretty straight forward, but you would be amazed at how many damaged hard drives we get in due to reveresed power cables.
The video below shows the result of two very bad things that happened to a SATA hard drive. First off the connector was put in upside down, but then it was taken out and put in the right way. Both times, the chips on the PCB board got fried.
Even though I’ve used AVG with no issues for years, My PC was overrun with viruses one day – system restore corrupt, disk clean up corrupt, etc, etc, nothing but ads for antivirus software popping up and I couldn’t even connect to those to buy their software. I removed the drive to run it as a remove drive on another PC so that I could run anti-virus on it in hopes that it would function again as an OS drive in the PC. I didn’t notice the 1234 sequence and connected the power cable in reverse, and just as in your video – smoke. I assume the drive/data still works if I can replace the bits that burned up and reconnect correctly? Can I replace the circuit board from an identical drive? or the burned electronic “chips”? What do you change to put the data files from this drive onto a few DVD discs (if that’s the kind of business you’re in)? Thanks for what you can tell me.