Repairing Samsung HM321HI Sata drive

[Silicate Wielder]

I got a sata to USB adaptor yesterday and I accidentaly plugged the powersupply in backwards to my sata drive, which fried the circuit board on it, is there a way I can rescue the files on it?

[PerpetualMotionSquad]

I highly doubt it to be honest. Sorry :) then again I'm not amazing at these things, maybe you can :)

[thetechguy2]

I also doubt you would be able to repair it.

Take it to a tech shop and see what they can do is my only advice.

[Infidelitas]

If it is only the circuit board, in theory, the data should still be on the drive. I just depends whether the power surge affected the discs. You might be able to put a new circuit in if you find the same make and model. Sometimes it might be a bit of a hit and miss, but I am not too sure how it will go. Don't hold me to that though.

[Silicate Wielder]

I guess they wouldn't because when i plugged it in the hardrive started up made a bad almost grinding like noise then it heated up and quit on me, I accidentally plugged the power adaptor in backwards.

[Infidelitas]

I guess they wouldn't because when i plugged it in the hardrive started up made a bad almost grinding like noise then it heated up and quit on me, I accidentally plugged the power adaptor in backwards.

Yeah, that doesn't sound good :S

How did you manage to do that? T thought they only went in one way

[Skyhawk]

Hmm.... I suggest asking on this forum (http://forum.hddguru.com/). You'll probably get better answers there. I don't think you'll be able to recover some of the data since there was a grinding sound.

By the way, I have a similar hard drive (except it's the 640GB model), did you ever experience any super slow read/write times? (This has nothing to do with your question, but I figured I'd ask :))

[Silicate Wielder]

Hmm.... I suggest asking on this forum (http://forum.hddguru.com/). You'll probably get better answers there. I don't think you'll be able to recover some of the data since there was a grinding sound.

By the way, I have a similar hard drive (except it's the 640GB model), did you ever experience any super slow read/write times? (This has nothing to do with your question, but I figured I'd ask :))

I was having problems with the hard drive getting really slow on windows. after about 6 months it started to take 5 mins to just boot up into the log in screen.

but I had no problems on Ubuntu, it stayed really fast with that OS.

Actually I wont be able to do anything with it now that I tried to remove the motor in it. unfortunately my Philips head screwdriver wont work on the star head screw that's keeping the disk attached to the motor, although it worked on my old iMac hard drive that uses the same type of screws. I have to buy a new screwdriver.

[Skyhawk]

What version of Windows were you running and for how long? Windows becomes a fatty over time. :3 I've had my laptop for about 9 months now, the hard drive is full (640GB) and it runs really slow...like a 1.75mb/s read time on the C:\ partition. (It's a Sandy i5)

Samsung drives are crap. They can't seem to maintain a decent read/write time with Windows. Meanwhile, my D:\ partition with just videos and pictures and a couple of DOS games stays at a healthy 98mb/s read.