The other night I was playing round with my PC, and I plugged my 320gb in but the computer wouldn’t turn on. It just made a zoom sound and then died. Somewhere in the PSU. And I had to turn it off at the PSU, and then turn it back on, and then try to turn it on again before it would make the noise again.

I was like wtf? So I looked at the connection and somehow the plug from the Molex–>SATA had gotten “un-keyed” and managed to get itself plugged in the wrong way. So I was shooting 12v up the 5v and 5 volt up the 12v. Needless to say the drive don’t go.

But I tried plugging it into my portable molex PSU, a little powerpack with a 240 in and comes out in a 12v/5v molex and it didn’t turn off – not that advanced. However some little voltage regulators on the hard drive’s logic board got very hot very quickly! So I quickly turned that off.

So guess what I will have to do is buy another 320gb, swap the logic boards, grab the data off it, swap the boards back and biff it

Waste of $190 (a couple months ago).

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