[Tfug] Failed drive == power problem?

[Jordan Aberle]

The controller board on the drive could be bad, I have switched them out on
standard size drives, never tried on a laptop drive though.  If you have
another spare laptop drive around try switching that board out, the boards
do need to be identical of course.

If you really are desperate for anymore data you can try a universal usb
adapter to plug in ide / sata / 3.5 sata drives.  I got one from Frys in
Phoenix for $30.





On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>wrote:

> So my notebook's hard disk crashed this past weekend.  I stuck it in
> an external USB drive enclosure to see what I could rescue off of it.
> Fortunately, I had just backed up so all that was at risk were a
> handful of emails.  And I was able to retrieve those files.  So all's
> good on that end.
>
> After the drive had been mounted for a while, however, it began to
> crash my notebook.  It would give me an "Over-current change on port
> 1" error and the notebook would lose power and various indicator
> lights (on the notebook) would start flashing.  The problem seems to
> be with the failing hard drive.  Once I replaced the failing drive in
> the enclosure with a good one, the problem went away.
>
> Basically, it seems like the failing drive caused the drive enclosure
> to draw too much power or caused a short or something that would crash
> the machine.  Is this something that anyone's seen before?  There's no
> actual problem here as I was able to retrieve all of my data before
> the drive completely died.  I'm just curious as to how a dying drive
> might cause a power-related problem.
>
> Claude
>
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