Why did smoke come out of the hard drive?

Question

Iron

Until yesterday, I had no experience with IDE disks.
Was with friends. They asked me to reset the data from the old hard drive to the new one. Old with IDE interface. There was no normal Internet, I decided to rely on intuition. And she failed.
There was no such port on the new motherboard. And why did I get into the jumper ... In general, I noticed a cord that seems to fit the middle "port" on the hard drive. He pulled out the "stub", inserted that wire into the port. Smoke came out of the outlet. Of course, I immediately pulled it out, no one noticed the smoke. I quickly logged in from my phone and looked at the jumpers. I found out that I can’t throw it off without an adapter, but where I put it is not a port at all. Now I sit and think. What have I done? Is there data on the disk? What can be done?

Answer 1

Screw (at the moment) 95% kirdyk, 99% data is alive. Take it to a SPECIAL data recovery workshop. Be honest about what happened. In the best case, they will find what burned out, replace it and it will work. At worst, they will completely change the propeller electronics - in this case, the problem of finding a donor (a disk of exactly the same model) is possible.

Answer 2

Say "something doesn't work", put it back and go drink tea.

Answer 3

Until yesterday, I had no experience with IDE disks.
Here you read this and you understand - old age has come =)
There are 2 ways to solve your problem:
1. Take the advice of a respected "nerudo"
2. Follow the path of a Jedi. Those. find somewhere a controller from the same screw (radio market?) And try to change the electronics yourself. Or ring the dead electronics and find what you burned there. Next, the soldering iron in hand and forward. Using this method, you will get
a) experience with IDE-disks;)
b) not sickly achievement in case of success
PS The experience of a radio amateur grows in direct proportion to the burnt equipment. Good luck!

Answer 4

You can try to find a donor (at a flea market, or at auctions, you can be in trouble, sometimes they sell such for spare parts). And yes - carry it to the SC, if only a resistor / capacitor / transistor burns out, it's not scary, if something is more serious - the repair will cost a serious penny.
Well it was necessary to think of pushing it into the jumpers. It's good that mom hasn't smoked yet. And where did you get the cable that came up to the jumpers? I have not seen such. Or was it powered by the flop?