Fudge. I plugged in a powered cable the wrong way on an IDE HDD

I plugged in the power cable of a IDE to USB adapter the wrong way and now it's broken. It was less than 10 seconds before I realized my mistake. Is there a way to fix this or do I have another paperweight?

 

^^ sadly, yes....if the parts were polarized!
check for shorts/burnouts on the pcb's. (use a multimeter to check circuit pathways)
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the converter should be the easiest to replace...
the hdd on the other hand?!
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it's possible to replace the hdd controller pcb with one of equal dimensions if the damage was limited to the pcb alone! there's a chance the hdd block can still be used! NOT GUARANTEED TO WORK! (i've NOT done this myself, not skilled enough! GIYF, apparently!)
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sad when you reverse a plug to socket, done it MANY times, and it blows chunks! (and parts/blood vessels)
sorry you went through it!
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frikkin typos...

 

I'm just sad that I wasted $17 on something that worked fine for a few days and now it's borked.

So I'll need to remove the circuit board from under the drive or do I need to just check the surface? The drive I bought is a Maxtor Maxline II. I hope I burnt out a fuse.

Whoever designed these things must've thought that having a curved top would save this thing. Sheesh.

 

^^ check surface area for now..
if tests prove inconclusive, carefully remove the pcb and carry out deeper checks! (the drive block is a vacuum sealed environment, no need to open that, DON'T breach the seals or dust will contaminate the platters)
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as for 'most' ide cables and sockets, there's a tab on one side of the plug/socket (roughly 1/2 cm wide) to prevent plugging cables in wrong!
most cables/sockets have this tab/gap, there's exceptions of course, perhaps you got one?!
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before you do anything, try the hdd in another machine! (and maybe converter if possible?)

 

In poor lighting I foolishly jammed in the power connector the wrong way. It was working fine yesterday. I really hope I blew a fuse or diode. But I guess it would cost twice as much as this drive to fix it.

 

If it's HDD got damaged then there's sill a chance to revive it - yeah it can be 1-3 diodes. just check them with a multimeter, that's all.

 

And I think I killed my PS2 Network Adapter by plugging the dead hard drive into it. My 100GB one still workson the computer, it's recognized but my Network Adapter won't recognize it. Looks like I"m picking up another one. It is 50 cents.

 

Pinout:
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_/12v|GND|GND|5v\
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So certainly you fed 12V to 5v logic chips. There's no chance it would survive such blow. Certainly some brands of harddrives come with zener diodes to cause the computer power supply to detect short circuit and prevent fire from such accidents but it's not there to protect the drive from damage.

Additionally depending on the model of the drive (usually maxtor drives aren't that lame) a unique, per unit portion of the firmware for the drive might be on a flash chip in the controller PCB. Meaning you can't simply swap the circuit board and expect it to work (that's typical with Seagate, Western Digital and Samsung drives, fyi) ...

 

Yeah, I hope it's a diode or fuse that I can easily replace.

In the meantime. I think I blew a fuse that connects the network adapter to the PlayStation when I installed the fubared HDD. Does anybody know how to fix that? I bought two Network adapters today, but found they didn't work nonetheless.

 

The fuse isn't on the network adapter. It's on the PS2 console.

 

That's what I mean. I do need to know what fuse to buy and where to install it. I would open up my PS2, but I've never done it, especially with all of the crap I've accumulated in the machine over the years.

I would buy a new one, but they are all over $30.

 

So I did some looking and all I got was a 2A fuse at 125V.
Which of these should I buy? http://www.digikey.com/product-sear...ee=0&rohs=0&quantity=&ptm=0&fid=0&pageSize=25
Slow or fast?