You only remind me that I don't blog that often, it should turn 25 this year even though I didn't know the word blog back then and scraped the personal posts from it.
Molex to SATA, lose all your data. Injection-molded thermoplastic SATA power connectors have a tendency to short internally and catch fire, as opposed to SATA connectors made out of two separate pieces of plastic clamped together with a seam.
Yes something like that happened in this dusty, old machine. Good thing she was using the PC when it happened and unplugged it when she smelled the burnt plastic.
Anyways, my last blog post is a bit of a highlight: saving a lightly burnt HDD https://tomk32.de/2022/10/03/hdd-data-rescue-a-burnt-cable.h...