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I decided to clean up the wiring in my machine a bit, get rid of extra length, reroute a couple things, etc. When I got it all put back together and booted it up it told me it couldn't find a boot drive.

I pulled everything back apart and found the problem: When I shortened the HDD power cable, I switched the 12V and 5V wires, so I ran 12V through the 5V circuits. :(

I figure this drive is toast, but I thought I'd check to see if there are any tricks to get it working again.
 
If that's all you did, i would suggest finding another drive and replacing the circuit board on it. But that's just if you want to get the data off of it and should be a last resort. I'm sure someone here has alot better things to try first. Try the freezer trick j/k, good luck with it.
 
Have you tried a normal connector to see if it survived by chance?
 
I've tried un-altered connectors on both the sata and the legacy molex power connections. No dice.
 
:S well .. shit happens .. the important thing is that u eat from that shit so u can learn from it ...

anyway ... in those cases, the only thing u could do is a PCB replacement ... hoping that the wiring that goes inside the drive is intact.

Greetings and good luck with the recovery ;)
 
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