Using a damaged hard disk in a working PC....?

[mj.redfox.mj]

Hi

If a hard disk has been damaged by someone turning the PC off at the
mains (it wasn't me, by the way!), and this disk was to be then put
into another machine as a slave drive, is there a chance this could
damage the motherboard of this other PC?

Someone has asked me if I'd hook the broken drive up as a slave for
them, just to see if any data can be salvaged, but I wanted to find out
if there was any risk in doing so first.

Thanks folks

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi

If a hard disk has been damaged by someone turning the PC off at the
mains (it wasn't me, by the way!), and this disk was to be then put
into another machine as a slave drive, is there a chance this could
damage the motherboard of this other PC?

HDDs (unless some infamous old IBM HDDs) cannot be damaged this way.
Only the data on them can. There is not risk in connecting the disk
to another comouter.

Someone has asked me if I'd hook the broken drive up as a slave for
them, just to see if any data can be salvaged, but I wanted to find out
if there was any risk in doing so first.

If the drive is broken, then there is a risk, but it still is small.
The signal lines in the interface cable are all permanently
short-circuit and 5v proof. Unless the HDD is si damaged
that it bridges 12V to the 5V line or a signel line, you are
pretty safe again.

Arno

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

HDDs (unless some infamous old IBM HDDs)

Which you will now either name or apologize for babbling once again.

cannot be damaged this way. Only the data on them can.
There is not risk in connecting the disk to another comouter.

If the drive is broken, then there is a risk,

You just said above that it can't be, liar babblehead.

 

[Horst Franke]

In Folkert Rienstra typed:

Which you will now either name or apologize for babbling once again.

Hi Folkert, You saw the OPs statement "PC powered off"?
What has this to do with IBM HDDs?

You just said above that it can't be, liar babblehead.

WHERE did You read this? Looks like You act as a troll ;-(
All of Arno's statements are correct.
Horst