If you accidentally fried your hard drive then don’t despair my friend! I did exactly that. I touched the exposed circuitry (thanks Seagate for not bolting on a cover!) against the chassis of my pc. I mounted the Seagate 80Gb ATA drive to the chassis but there was a metal tab touching a resistor on the control board. *Crackling sound* I hate the smell of friend circuitry! Ok so I basically broke into a cold sweat when the drive kept setting off my power supply whenever it was plugged in. I had all my design work on it and some recent work I did for some clients that was worth thousands of dollars. How the puck was I to get my data back? I called up a few hard drive data recovery places in Sydney. The average cost to get my data back was $2000. Two Thousand Dollars! Remember that amount, I’ll continue further with this story. I thought about this for a while and remembered that I had two other Seagate drives. One was a 40gb and another was an 80gb drive. The 80gb drive had a different control board and the 40gb had an identical control board to my fried 80gb drive. The only difference between the fried 80gig and the ok 40gig was the firmware version and a few slightly different chips, but they had the same serial numbers. I couldn’t see damage to the control board on my fried drive. But I unscrewed the control board and took a look underneath for discolorations. Nothing visible, but the chips on the control board must have been damaged. Regardless, I took the 80gig that …