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Originally Posted by manu_b

Hi everyone!

This is just to say that the "american method" didn't work for my Musical Maxtor (160 GB)... I tried shaking it a bit (unplugged) and one of the chips began melting and smoking when I plugged it again... I'm afraid that i've lost everything on it...

I've got a pic of it but I don't know how to upload it...

Hope you'll be luckier!

Manu, Switzerland

Hi Manu!

I assume the pic that burned on your harddisk is the motordriver (labeled 'Smooth'). the same happened to my maxtor diamondmax 10 250 GB. I bought a replacement PCB from ebay (40$) that fits my harddisk type. It's working now and i'm recovering my data right in that moment.
I found that thread because after replacing the board and starting up my harddrive, it produced exactly this beep music one time. I think the platters got stuck when the motordriver burned and the 'buzz routine' was used to unstuck them.

Matthias, Switzerland