Data Recovery In Japan
Fried External hard drive?
I bought a Buffalo external hard drive in Japan which runs on a 100v power supply (I live in Australia which runs on 240v) and brought the hard drive back to Australia. When I connected the hard drive to the computer I forgot to use a power converter.
So this smoke came out of it and I quickly unplugged the drive and used a converter to see if the drive still worked, it seemed to work ok. So I transfered some of the files I wanted, but not all of them.
Later I tested the drive again and it wouldn’t show up in ‘My Computer’. The power light and the memory read/write light was constantly on on the hard drive.
Would taking my hard drive to a data recovery place be my only option?
Thanks.
Thanks to everyone for their help. I took out the hard drive and inserted it into my desktop and it worked flawlessly. I must’ve just burnt out the power supply in the external hard drive case.
Thanks again.
Sounds like its toast. Smoke is never a good thing where electronics are concerned. I’m surprised it work at all, all be it briefly.
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