Neil, you have one "enclosure" and one harddisk. I understand that the enclosure is bad not the harddisk. The harddisk is not USB3 but only SATA(1 or 2 or 3) so you can connect to a= =20 motherboard or to another enclosure SATA compliant. ;-) Nicola On 03/10/2011 20.04, PICdude wrote: > Mixed results: it worked for a bit... I instantly started copying > files but it died after some time (maybe 20 mins), and the drive was > not recognizable anymore after that. The drive was hot at that point. > I'm at home today so all I have is a basic weller iron, but I can't > see anything that looks shorted. > > Good news is that I got my Eagle files back (lots of work there). > Average news is that I could not get some invoices/admin stuff, but > since I emailed those to customers, I can extract from emails and > re-create. Bad news is that I could not get back all but one PIC code > file which was last modified on Saturday. It's not enough for me to > bother to go to a data-recovery service, so got some work to do again. > :( > > Cheers, > -Neil. > > > > Quoting PICdude: > >> Actually just tried that, but still not ohmmeter not seeing any >> connection to 2 pins. There are 2 large chips which have no visible >> pins, so I won't be able to move them. >> >> Just soldered on the wires, so my next email will be either extremely >> happiness or extremely sad... >> >> >> >> >> Quoting William Wilson: >> >>> I've had some luck with just reflowing the solder between the board >>> and connector on USB drives. >>> I've also had luck moving the memory chip over to an identical >>> working USB drive (thumbdrive that is) >>> >>> >>> >>> Cris Wilson >>> Information Resource Consultant >>> College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities >>> Clemson University >>> 864-656-6081 >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On >>> Behalf Of PICdude >>> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 12:46 PM >>> To: piclist@mit.edu >>> Subject: [EE] USB drive emergency >>> >>> My new flash drive just died and I desperately need data off of it, >>> as it's been almost a week since my last backup with a lot of work >>> done since then. >>> >>> I really suspect the connector as it's a bit bent. When plugged in, >>> it either is not detected at all, or if I put pressure on the >>> connector it will detect something, then come up with "One of the >>> USB devices is not recognized...". >>> >>> It's a USB 3.0 drive (9-pin connector), but my computer has 4-pin >>> USB ports. I've opened up the flash drive and the connector has >>> "110815", which I've not yet been able to find. But it looks >>> identical to Amphenol GSB316441CEU (datasheet... >>> http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Amphenol%20PDFs/GSB316431CEU= ..pdf >>> ) or Wurth 692112030100 (datasheet... >>> http://katalog.we-online.de/kataloge/eican/media/pdf/692112030100.pdf ) >>> >>> I'm stripping a generic USB cable and intend to solder the 4 wires >>> to the appropriate pads on the flash-drive PCB, but am not clear >>> which pins on the USB side are mapped to which SMD pins on the PCB >>> side, because the Amphenol connector does not show pin numbers, >>> though the Wurth does. I'm testing with an ohmmeter, but so far all >>> I see is that USB pin 1 maps to the second SMD pin, and that matches >>> the Wurth connector datasheet. >>> >>> Would it be safe to assume that these connectors (including the once I >>> have) have the same mappings? And anything I need to do with the >>> shield wire? >>> >>> Before I cause more damage, thoughts appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Neil. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive View/change your >>> membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>> >>> -- >>> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive >>> View/change your membership options at >>> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >>> >> >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ& list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> > > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .