Logic board swap on a maxtor 120gb sata

[sarbz]

Long story, short version:

I had a short in some of my wiring, my HD sparked and smoked and no longer works. One of the chips on the logic board is fried (visably melted & burned). I have another identical maxtor drive, can I just swap logic boards to retrieve my data? Or is there another board somewhere else in the drive that might be fried (like a power board)?

[defakto]

Drive revisions have to match exactly, if I recall correctly, it's possible something else could be fried though, it's always a possibility. Only one true way to find out.

[sarbz]

The chance of blowing the other logic board is making me really nervous. Anyone else ever try this?

[nols]

I have done it on two of my Maxtor sata drives which were shorted out. Worked perfectly fine for me, just make sure the logic boards are exactly the same.

[_Korruption_]

Buddy of mine did a PCB swap on a Seagate 7200.7 when his USB enclosure blew up. It was a success, he got his data off the drive and Seagate went through with the RMA.