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HDD circuit board transplant

Jan 22, 2007 4:26AM PST

You know the little circuit board on one side of HDD?
Well this hard drive was placed in a system where the power supply was perhaps too strong and it blew the drive. I say "Blew" for a lack of better word.
There's a black spot on the circuit board. One of those little transistors is even slithly melted.
Of course since, the drive is no longer detected

Now here is what I'd like to do.
I'm going to buy an identical (second-hand) HDD and simply do a circuit board transplant. (to access data on the damaged drive)
What do you think?
I can see four screws...it looks like that board comes right out.

Thanks


...well at one sopt there's a (burnt) black spot. And of course now

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