{"id":4530,"date":"2024-06-26T02:47:21","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/?p=4530"},"modified":"2024-06-26T02:47:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T01:47:21","slug":"power-connector-backwards-in-my-maxtor-hard-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/power-connector-backwards-in-my-maxtor-hard-drive.html","title":{"rendered":"Power connector backwards in my Maxtor hard drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally inserted the power connector backwards in my Maxtor hard drive (split second contact) and a chip on the PCB started glowing. Can you provide a PCB that would allow me to recover the data on this HDD? I can provide any details needed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If your HDD can&#8217;t spin, you can swap PCB to try.<\/p>\n<p>You can send your PCB&#8217;s clear photos to check.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes it no longer spins. I have attached pictures to this email. You\u2019ll noticed the damaged chip on the top left of the board.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know what you think. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image007-06-10-06-26-09-44-34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" title=\"image0(07-06-10-(06-26-09-44-34)\" style=\"margin: 0px; display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image0(07-06-10-(06-26-09-44-34)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image007-06-10-06-26-09-44-34_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image107-06-10-06-26-09-44-34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" title=\"image1(07-06-10-(06-26-09-44-34)\" style=\"display: inline; background-image: none;\" alt=\"image1(07-06-10-(06-26-09-44-34)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/image107-06-10-06-26-09-44-34_thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/maxtor-6y080p0-pcb-board-040111300-p-2348.html\">Maxtor 6Y080P0 PCB Board 040111300 &#8211; $26.00 &#8211; HardDriveParts.com<\/a> is your donor PCB.<\/p>\n<p>Just need to swap the PCB.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I accidentally inserted the power connector backwards in my Maxtor hard drive (split second contact) and a chip on the PCB started glowing. Can you provide a PCB that would allow me to recover the data on this HDD? I can provide any details needed. If your HDD can&#8217;t spin, you can swap PCB to try. You can send your PCB&#8217;s clear photos to check. Yes it no longer spins. I have attached pictures to this email. You\u2019ll noticed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/power-connector-backwards-in-my-maxtor-hard-drive.html\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcbs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4531,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/4531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harddriveparts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}