Re: Burned hard disk

"Matir" <> wrote in message
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> I've burned my Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB hard disk yesterday by a
> mistake I did, what is impossible-I pluged power cable in wrong
> way-inversely. Computer had started for 0,1s and turned down
> instantly(only
> the power led once blinked). Now, I think that disk make a short-circuit,
> becouse when it is connected, the computer don't start up.But when I
> disconnect this drive, it starts correctly and other disks work.
>
> Did anybody have the same problem? I need to recover my files...
>
> I've found identic disk on Ebay (the same size, type, firmware). If I
> replace elektronic from new one to burned one will it works? Is there any
> chances that hard disk destroy new controller?

I recently did this swap with a couple of 10gb Segates of Xbox origin.
One of the boards died so I swapped it with the other one.
At first I thought it hadn't worked as the PC wouldn't recognize it.
But after resetting the Bios hardware config it worked fine.