> Mixed results:  it worked for a bit... I instantly started copying
> files but it died after some time (maybe 20 mins), and the drive was
> not recognizable anymore after that.  The drive was hot at that point.
>   I'm at home today so all I have is a basic weller iron, but I can't
> see anything that looks shorted.
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> Good news is that I got my Eagle files back (lots of work there).
> Average news is that I could not get some invoices/admin stuff, but
> since I emailed those to customers, I can extract from emails and
> re-create.  Bad news is that I could not get back all but one PIC code
> file which was last modified on Saturday.  It's not enough for me to
> bother to go to a data-recovery service, so got some work to do again.
> :(
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> Cheers,
> -Neil.

You said it got extremely hot - put it in the fridge for a while, then try =
for the next bunch of files.


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