I have a drive that i plugged into a power supply using the wrong socket. TLDR: my drive has a burned/melted power supply socket. However, it looks like i can replace the small board that includes this socket. Anyone know where i can order parts of a WDC 500gb Caviar Green drive? Its from 2008. MD…

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tomsfans October 30, 2012, 12:51am 4

In most cases, you should exchange the BIOS/Main Controller IC before you swap hard drive PCB, in order to make the replacement board compatible with your HDD.