Fried External hard drive?

[Kazuki_Fuse]

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.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

I just fixed it by opening the external hard drive case, taking the drive out and inserting it into my desktop. I must've just fried the power component in the external hard drive case.

 

[Hectic Glenn]

Holy smokes, there is a lesson learned! Good idea taking it out to fix it, lucky escape.

 

[Operational]

Yeah you have to be careful, Australia is powerful.

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

Holy smokes, there is a lesson learned! Good idea taking it out to fix it, lucky escape.

Specially since it's my brother's drive...:dozey:

 

[Vegeta897]

Holy snap, unrelated but your name looks really familiar. I don't know if I remember it from this site or something else..

 

[Kazuki_Fuse]

Holy snap, unrelated but your name looks really familiar. I don't know if I remember it from this site or something else..

Yeah I dunno. I took it from Jin-Roh, so maybe you remember it from that.