HDD Burnt HELP!!!1

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Shaik Farooq

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is there any chance of recovery
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Im Scared to connect to motherboard
it all happened recently when i cleaned the case.
after cleaning it and turning my pc on smokes started to come out so i removed it kept it aside
any help is appreciated.
 
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You lucked out. Seems like the connector took most of the damage instead of the circuit board.
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The best hope would be to take it to a data recovery house ($100 - $1,000+ for recovery)...

Second hope is to find an identical drive somewhere - and attempt to switch the circuit boards - do not open the drive - damage will occur. You have about a 50-50 chance of getting it to work this way....
 
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Maybe. No way to know until it is too late. Personally, I wouldn't.
If there is absolutely irreplaceable data on that drive (and that should never happen), I'd probably try to find an exact match drive and swap the circuit board as outlined above.

And the only thing I really consider irreplaceable is personal documents and pictures. A picture of my grandson when he was 3, for instance. Or a Master's thesis in progress. That is why those types of things live in several different places around here.

If I lose a drive...oh well. Replace it and move on.
 
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Even if you try swapping boards, I'd personally plug that drive into a cheap external cable or enclosure. You'd be a bit less likely to damage your motherboard, in my opinion, and if it does damage the cable or enclosure, that's a lot easier to replace than your motherboard.

Casey
 
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Shaik Farooq

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WRONG !!CAUSE SOME GUY SAID TO rub USING A RUBBER AND TRY CONNECTING
THIS Is what it looked after rubbing
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and IT WORKED!!!!!!!!, though in device manager it showed unlocated harddisk and using this software called magic partition i was able to recover my partitions and thus the data.. THANKS you all and the guy who told me to do that.
 
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You lucked out. Seems like the connector took most of the damage instead of the circuit board.
 
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