Need to recover DATA

[Priapus]

Afternoon guys.

I've just had an 80GB die on me. The drive it self is fine. However, the mainboard has a chip that fried on it. Just started smoking!

Anyway to recover music off it? if I replace it with another board, does it have to be the same make/model/size/ect hard drive?

 

[Priapus]

Is this a chip on the drive PCB that's fried? If so you should be able to swap boards with a donor drive but it'll need to be an identical drive - make, model, size and revision if possible.

Yes, a chip on it has a big hole in it now, where it burnt out.