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Hi, i have put my laptop 2.5 hd into my desktop pc to transfer data. i borrowed a ide reducer to plug the drive in. i never checked the polariy of + and - on the 2 power pins, assumed it was set up correctly. but no, they were the wrong way round. drive is now dead and a nice little burning smell. the question is. can i buy another identical seagate momentus drive, remove the 5 small pins holding the circuit board underside and install this into the damage drive. or will there be soldering involved? thanks, wayne

Im afraid i dont know the answer to your question, but if you need the data off the drive to put on a new one, i think you can get this done reasonably cheap if you look and ask around a bit for data recoextremely . some people will charge far too much money to get it done however, so look out! sorry i cant be of more help! hope you get it sorted! =)