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GD 09-03-2009 09:15 AM
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?

G 09-03-2009 04:39 PM
yes

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.

G 09-03-2009 05:35 PM
Well there could be a chance he knocked a connection loose inside the casing. Give it a try inside your PC.

GD 09-03-2009 10:09 PM
BOOYAH!

Vietnamese Crippler 09-03-2009 10:17 PM
I hope that means the drive still works :o

G 09-03-2009 10:24 PM
or he just pulled his nuts out of some chick's asshole

El Fangel 09-03-2009 10:56 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by G (Post 2703805)
or he just pulled his nuts out of some chick's asshole
ROFL!

GD 09-03-2009 11:42 PM
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.

GD 10-16-2009 05:18 PM
It's working. Yeah baby! Whoooooooooooooo......

G 10-16-2009 06:38 PM
What happened. Why wasn't it working before.

Xero 10-16-2009 10:05 PM
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.

GD 10-17-2009 12:47 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by G (Post 2774948)
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

GD 10-17-2009 10:46 AM
Somewhat Mr.Einstein.

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

GD 10-18-2009 03:08 AM
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.

GD 10-18-2009 05:25 AM
Yeah!


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