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So you smell a bad terrible burning smell coming from your hard drive. The good knews is, not all is lost!
The burning smell is JUST the green plastic PCB circuit board on the bottom of your hard drive. It smells like that because plastic smells terrible when it burns. In fact, it's like toxic poison, so don't inhale it! The obvious answer to fixing a burned PCB would be to replace it. You can usually find a compatible replacement controller board easily. It's often on other hard drives of the same manufacturer that were made during the same years. It's very safe and easy to do so you don't have to worry about destroying the other hard drive which you're borrowing the PCB from. The other hard drive doesn't have to be the same size or capacity; it doesn't even have to be the same model. The main point is that the PCB models match. Even if parts don't match, you can try it anyway to see if it will work, there's no harm in trying. It either detects or it doesn't. Once you have a match, just grab your tool kit. A security bit set to open up those hex-shape screws can be found on ebay for relatively cheap. Then you get the special screwdriver that can unscrew those hex-star-shaped looking screws and just swap the PCB boards and plug in the hard into your computer. Congratulations! It works! Just remember that the smell isn't your platters or anything, so your data is fine. It's just that circuit board.
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