I have plugged my old laptop power cable into my USB hard drive, and now it does not work at all. Have I completed fried the circuits? Is there any way to get the data back if I have please?Thanks for any advice you can offer.
Do you have an Geek Squad nearby, if so, take it to them and see if they can fix it, this also happened to my 1TB USB drive, they got the data off, but I'm in Mississippi. Hope it works
The circuits might have gone on the hard disc. But data platters would not be gone. You might get back your data, but it involves a great expenditure. You have to send the disc to the manufacturer for retrieval of data. Unless the data is very important, I would suggest junking the disc.
what you could do is, try and get another hard drive box and try the hard drive on that. If it is completely fried, you could get your data but data recovery is costly coz they have to physically retrieve the data. It could cost anywhere around 300$ - 1000$.
