pstigerfan Posted October 7, 2011 Share Posted October 7, 2011 Well, kinda, I guess the power supply for my show computer (the computer that has all of my sequences on it) was recalled some time back for a manufacturers defect. Came home today to find the power supply burned out, motherboard fried, and the two hard disks no longer working. Spent about 5 hours trying to recover data, but to no avail.Luckily I had most of my sequences backed up to my other sequencing machine, but I lost 2 or 3 sequences that weren't backed up. Oh well, at least it didn't catch fire or anything- that could have been bad.On the bright side, I was going to go out and buy a new machine (a little "small-form" machine), I guess I got a reason to do that now. Time to go spend more money I don't have.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulanator Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 As someone who works with and repairs them for a living, I feel for you. I completely understand, and thankfully you had most of your stuff backed up!I hope you get back up and running soon, only about 47 days until lights on!!! (unless you are doing Halloween, then you are really crunched for time...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJ Hvasta Posted October 8, 2011 Share Posted October 8, 2011 Here's a fix to try. look on ebay for the exact same motherboard.. if your old supply overvolted, the hard drive platters should be ok. You can look for exact replacement hard drives, swap the controller boards off them with the "bad drives". Its not difficult. I've got data off drives this way. Unless the drives hard-crashed (physically damaged ) you should be able to salvage them.Abt finding the same mobo, the drives will have the same hardware signature for the OS already loaded, you will not have to reinstall a new OS and overwrite anything.. it will probably require a call to re-activate the OS tho.. this is a lot cheaper than buying a new machine.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fxdwg Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 You may want to try a device like this.http://www.apricorn.com/products/notebook-hard-drive-upgrade-kits/drivewire-ide-pata-sata-to-usb-hdd-adapter.htmlHook up your old drives to any pc to get the data. Works very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pstigerfan Posted October 9, 2011 Author Share Posted October 9, 2011 TJ- This computer was at least 8 years old, so the motherboard model has been discontinued. This was actually a machine I pulled out of our "scrap pile" at work because I was too cheap to spend money on another machine.I like that drivewire device, I think I may look into ordering one of those. It might actually help in this situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeH Posted October 9, 2011 Share Posted October 9, 2011 fxdwg wrote: You may want to try a device like this.http://www.apricorn.com/products/notebook-hard-drive-upgrade-kits/drivewire-ide-pata-sata-to-usb-hdd-adapter.htmlHook up your old drives to any pc to get the data. Works very well.Nice little gadget to have. I may have to get me one.MikeH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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