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exboyfil

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9. Thank you I did just that

Reply to Earth-shine (Reply #7)

Sun Feb 13, 2022, 02:19 AM

Feb 2022

A little worried when I first plugged it in to my Sabrant 5 in 1 as it smoked a bit. It didn't recognize it at first. It is writing to another hard drive right now and smelling a bit. I am a keeping a careful eye on it with the fire extinguisher handy.

Bought an 1 TB SSD this evening. Done with spinning hard drives. Of course I was the moron who overpowered it.

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I think I might have just killed my external hard drive [View all] exboyfil Feb 2022 OP

I think you smoked it. Casady1 Feb 2022 #1

It ain't dead until you hit it with a sledgehammer bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #2

Thanks for the info! HubertHeaver Feb 2022 #8

That is me exboyfil Feb 2022 #10

The data may still be ok liberal N proud Feb 2022 #3

This would be my guess as well DetroitLegalBeagle Feb 2022 #4

WD Timewas Feb 2022 #5

How precious is the data? CloudWatcher Feb 2022 #6

Is this a drive in a USB enclosure? Earth-shine Feb 2022 #7

Thank you I did just that exboyfil Feb 2022 #9