Either late last year or early this year this question came up. Someone who had actually done it said you could replace the circuit board on the drive.  Check the Pcbuild archives.



>Subject: [PCBUILD] Fried HD
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>>


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