yesterday my room mate asked to use my external, took it out of my lap top bag, and plugged in my laptop power cable and he triped the house power, he put 19 v dc instead of 12dc through it, asking if anyone knows how i can atleast just remove the valuable info on it, ta
Its very likely that the power regulator/control electronics are blown, but h/d itself is OK! I've never been involved with the repair of an external h/d, but I have a hunch that the drive itself could be connected up, as SATA drive in a desktop computer that is compatible with SATA. Then the data could be recovered!
How the heck did he manage to fit the laptop PS into the external slot? They're usually very different sized (Parking a Cadillac in a closet, as they say).
I'm pretty sure if you popped the case open you'd find that the circuit board is fried, which is just a USB to IDE or SATA adapter. Like most other people said, open it up and get an adapter like this one and you should be able to pull the info off of it.
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