Last week I crashed drive with a virtualbox image on it. The nature of the crash was a ground loop spike while programming a microcontroller board. This spike blew a big capacitor on the board, fried tracks, wiped out 1 of 2 usb controllers on my laptop and zapped my second hard drive.
By murphy's law I had just cleared off the one hard drive that was the recent backup for this vdi file and now I'm left with a two year old backup (after looking through about 50 dvds and 6 old hard drives).
I bought an equivalent hard drive on Ebay and swapped out the electronics to no effect. Seeing that people swapped out the heads I tried it but all I get is major clicking. Opening up the drive I see a faint mark where the head was trying to traverse the top of top platter (there are two platters). I'm pretty sure that the spindle motor isn't fried.
How screwed am I?
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LOL. Yea, it's been a rough couple of weeks.
Last week I crashed drive with a virtualbox image on it. The nature of the crash was a ground loop spike while programming a microcontroller board. This spike blew a big capacitor on the board, fried tracks, wiped out 1 of 2 usb controllers on my laptop and zapped my second hard drive. By murphy's law I had just cleared off the one hard drive that was the recent backup for this vdi file and now I'm left with a two year old backup (after looking through about 50 dvds and 6 old hard drives). I bought an equivalent hard drive on Ebay and swapped out the electronics to no effect. Seeing that people swapped out the heads I tried it but all I get is major clicking. Opening up the drive I see a faint mark where the head was trying to traverse the top of top platter (there are two platters). I'm pretty sure that the spindle motor isn't fried. How screwed am I?