Hi all!
I had a diode blow out on my old trusty Seagate Barracuda 7220.7 200Gb being implemented as a cased external drive. (Image attachment included).
Now I've been reading into what can be done, but i have a few questions:
1. The drive is supposed to be functional when the diode is removed, right? (Actually it removed itself from the board when it failed permanently
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and i haven't dared to try it as is...) I just wouldn't want to risk any overvoltage issues possibly destroying anything further since a replacement board is not so easy to come by. I do however have a 12V power supply that came with a IDE/SATA to USB-adapter so it shouldn't cause an issue. (The damage happened with another power supply, which was oddly enough rated 12V output as well...).
2. Is there anything else that might have fried in the process? The board looks fine on both sides though, besides the pads of the failed diode as the board coating started to smoke just before i rushed to unplug it.
3. In regards of replacing the diode, anything specific that i should know about?
The HDD was coming to the end of it's service life as it started to have power issues and i was getting ready to migrate my files onto another external drive when it failed and started smoking the second i plugged it in. Now my files are stuck in it and would really appreciate if we'd get it going again for a tad longer. In my country they rip you off even worse than many other places to recover files, so that's not an option...
Thanks heaps in advance!