Drive failure. PSU cables? Handling?

Hello everyone. I need help again.

I have a hard drive. A "Western Digital Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache".
Had it for a year and a half.
Today I was doing some internal maintenance. Dusting, re-applying thermal paste, rewiring, and moving my drives to the 5.25 bay. I've been looking to install a water cooling loop, and wanted to remove the drive bay of my haf 922 to make space for the front radiator, pump, reservoir, etc. I took the spinning drive from the drive bay and screwed on the 5.25 adapters that came with the case. Sliding the drive into the 5.25 bay was a little bit of a tight squeeze, but it seemed fine.
I used some new drive power cables that came extra with my brother's Evga psu. They were all black, a little thinner and more flexible, and looked nicer than the cables from my seasonic psu, so I hooked up the drives with them.
Then I go to turn the thing on. I press the power, and the fans spin a quarter turn and the whole thing fails in less than a second.
I unplugged the drives, and it went into the bios totally fine.
I plug in either the ssd or the hdd individually and the thing wont start again.
I use my old uglier cables and the thing works completely fine.

With a little experiment, I tested a drive with my brother's computer using MY psu's cable, and the same thing happened. Different psu, different cable, failed to start.
Same Psu cable as the psu, and it works fine...
Is this weird!?

So once I got that sorted out (i just sucked it up and used my ugly cables), i found the HDD wasn't being recognized by the bios. I tried different data and power cables, different ports... nothing.
I can't tell if the thing is spinning up. I don't think it is. The bottom of the exposed pcb board gets a little warm. Is that normal?
I didn't hear any horrible screeching or sparking, so I suspect the data on the disk is intact, but perhaps the circuitry got damaged while i was handling it, squeezing it into the case, putting on the adapter...
Or maybe the PSU freaked out at the new cable and sent a billion volts to the thing...
But the SSDs are working fine, and they were on the same cable. (thank the computer gods, that would have been horrible.)

Luckily I have all the stuff i really care about backed up off this broken HDD.
But I still want to get it working. Maybe get the stuff I lost off of it.
Data recovery maybe?
Any help or advice appreciated. Thanks :)

You can burn the drives trying that. I did the same mistake 5 years ago. The plugs seem compatible and clamp tight in place but it is possible the metals are not touching each other, or like in my case cause them to die. (2 harddisks and 1 DVD drive died same time, go figure).

Halt until others comment with their experience.

CKWD, he hasn't damaged the drives (yet ).

I use my old uglier cables and the thing works completely fine.

GokAy said:

CKWD, he hasn't damaged the drives (yet ).

I use my old uglier cables and the thing works completely fine.

the other drives. The ssds/cd drive. The hdd is still a paperweight.

thanks for the responses guys. with a little research, i found that the no-spinning symptoms are possibly because of a so-called "tvs diode" that will fry when overvolted to protect the other parts. I found them on the pcb board on the hdd, and i'll put a meter to them tomorrow. Apparently they can be replaced with some soldering. I'll look into it...
thanks again

Bah, reading skills ftw! :)

In my case, the drives were all brand new WD Green Caviars. I told the company I fried them (consumer error) and asked whatever they could do. Fortunately, the distributer replaced all the drives, including the DVD. I am still grateful for that.

Hope you sort it out as well.

GokAy said:

Bah, reading skills ftw! :)

In my case, the drives were all brand new WD Green Caviars. I told the company I fried them (consumer error) and asked whatever they could do. Fortunately, the distributer replaced all the drives, including the DVD. I am still grateful for that.

Hope you sort it out as well.

Hey
Thanks for your advice :)

I took it all apart, and found that there was in fact a TVS diode shorted. WD's site said that simply removing it would restore the function of the drive if that was the issue, but after doing so, found it still unresponsive. I did make note that the cluster of resistors on the pcb board gets too hot to touch when it's receiving power for more than a minute... maybe that's something worth investigating...
I doubt I'll get the drive working :/ I'll go get a new one, and just suck up the lost data. I'll have to reinstall a helluva lot of programs, and I lost a few project files. :'(
I might take it into a data recovery place nearby and ask if they can do anything. Hopefully it won't cost an arm and a leg.
Or there's a WD office nearby. I'll go bang on the door and complain XD