I've never seen that, but what I have seen are a few who have taken the
platter out and put it in another HD to recover data, but you have to be
very very careful.
Dave Jones
http://www.airmemories.com
http://www.fwbac.com

Camel: A horse designed by committee


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From: "AMD950" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 3:27 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Fried HD


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> Went away last weekend, shutting down all PCs.  Returned to encounter an
> odor of electronic components burning/shorting out.  Discovered that an
old
> HP I use for device programming would not boot.  Turns out the circuit
> board on the HD literally fried; one corner black & crumbling.  Drive
> contains data that cannot be replaced (please no comments on backing up;
> usually back up to cd once a month, but lapsed on this machine for the
last
> 2 months).
>
> Question 1:  What could have caused this?
>
> Question 2:  Is it possible to replace circuit board on HD (if I can find
> it) and maybe recover data?
>
>
>
> Ian Carmichael
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