View Full Version : My Seagate 500 gb external portable HDD fell
And it's not working anymore. Is it possible for me to remove it from the case and add/install it on my pc?
Vietnamese Crippler
09-03-2009, 04:58 PM
You could, but there's no point running it in your PC. More likely than not, it's fucked.
Well there could be a chance he knocked a connection loose inside the casing. Give it a try inside your PC.
Vietnamese Crippler
09-03-2009, 10:17 PM
I hope that means the drive still works :o
or he just pulled his nuts out of some chick's asshole
El Fangel
09-03-2009, 10:56 PM
or he just pulled his nuts out of some chick's asshole
ROFL!
Neither. I just got a ray of hope. Gonna work on it this weekend.
YOUR Hero
09-06-2009, 07:05 PM
yes to your original question. I bet however you have a broken solder point or similar inside of it from the fall.
It's working. Yeah baby! Whoooooooooooooo......
What happened. Why wasn't it working before.
I opened mine I dropped like 3 feet. 1.5TB.
Not being detected. $100 down the fucking drain because I figured it was a case problem. God fucking dammit.
What happened. Why wasn't it working before.
It took a fall from the stairs. It's an old one and uses an external power supply so I opened it up and checked it with my multimeter but then I realized that even the adapter fell down. The transistors needed to be changed and that's how it started working again.
Matchbox
10-17-2009, 09:53 AM
You'd think it'd simply croaked a diode in the zener bridge
Matchbox
10-18-2009, 03:06 AM
No need to get pissy. Diodes are more fragile than transistors and when dropped they usually fault out.
ok?
Sheesh
Chill out man. No hard feelings. Thanks for your concern too.
Matchbox
10-18-2009, 03:40 AM
You are welcome.
I think it's it cool that someone actually takes the time to diagnose and then fix the problem. too many random component changers.
Glad you got it running.
Good man.
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