If it's shorted out there is a chance that replacing the circuit board on the hard drive will allow it to function once again. I'm not sure about others, but ebay seems to be a good source for getting just the board. Jason On 10/3/07, Pete <teeahr1 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've got an HDD that I use as a backup-for-a-backup that seems to be > shorted out. When I give it power, whatever box its in will not turn on, > and I'm pretty sure I toasted an enclosure. This is all personal data, > music and such, not something I'm at all willing to put money into > recovering unless it's <$100. Anyone have any luck with issues of this > sort? > > best- > p.daniels > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071003/25bcc471/attachment.htm