Oh no my new 500 GB WD mybook is smoking

[creon006]

Well I have a big problem,
my 500gb WD mybook that i just archived all my stuff to .. got the wrong power cable plugged into it (which is bullcrap because their power cable should be more proprietary and there should be a watt/voltage indicator on the external drive) the drive was not powered on and the drive heads never engaged ... so anyways I extracted the SATA drive from the case and I plugged it into the bare drive into the computer and I smelled a burning smell w/ a little smoke coming from the SATA connector and i quickly unplugged the drive and my heart sank to the floor ... i knew the drive was fried ... I had all this space for a reason and i have the damn thing filled up .. now I have never worked on a drive before but how much effort does it take to replace the pcb on the drive? what else could cause smoke from the connector and once a pcb smokes its pretty much toast right??

thanks so much

[grig85]

when your drive is smoking you should be able to see components that could have been overheated or even blown up.

[creon006]

I will disassemble the drive case and disconnect the PCB board from the drive and post pictures of the SATA connector that started smoking when I plugged it in

[grig85]

sure