Alright so on the weekend i blew the circuit board of my external hard drive and i was really hoping that the 500GB drive itself was still saved but upon reinstall to my Desktop the drive did not spin, i couldn't even turn on my computer with it connected. So i looked at the logic board of the hard drive and a small square black resistor was cracked "I think it was a resistor" so i figured i would snip it off as i have heard some success with that. To my great success it did work as the drive is running now while I'm copying all important information over.
Now my question is... This drive seems to be running completely fine without that cracked square piece on the logic board. Is this drive still going to be reliable for the future?
Now my question is... This drive seems to be running completely fine without that cracked square piece on the logic board. Is this drive still going to be reliable for the future?