I got a Samsung SP1654N IDE drive in today which at first glance looks like any other IDE hard drive. The biggest head scratch is that when slaved into a secondary system, the system powers up normally, all looks good. On closer inspection of our slaved drive reveals that the disk is not spinning, not even a brrrrr or click. Someone call a external drive data recovery specialist!

The drive came from a external hard drive casing. This was tested and we found it to be faulty as well. We can say that the drive suffered from a intense power spike. This spike has caused damage to the external hard drive casing, the PCB of the hard drive and also the spindle motor of the hard disk drive.

We will have to replace the spindle bearing motor of the hard drive and various power chips on the PCB. Once this is complete, we can mount the drive back into the secondary machine and image the disk over to a new working hard drive.

Very important when suffering from a power spike, if you see or smell any burning, please switch the hard drive off and unplug the power. Do not attempt to replace any of the parts on the drive, and even more important, DO NOT open the hard drive itself. This will lead to a complete data loss or corruption!

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