Thanks Vincent - glad I now know the correct technical name. I would have
been going around asking for a 'star' screwdriver.

J.


"Vincent" wrote in message
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You'll very probably need a Torx ("star") screwdriver. You can engage Torx
screws with Allen keys or a flathead driver of appropriate width, but
that's
not an optimal solution. Fortunately, Torx quarter-inch hex bits will do
the
job, and are cheap; you need just one hex bit driver to match, and they're
cheap too.


"John Smith" wrote in message
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Hi,

I fried a Seagate 80GB drive a few weeks ago.

I did a stupid thing and was connecting the power connector up when the
PC
was on, put the connector in the wrong way and, strange burning smell 5
seconds later, the drive was fried.

So, is there anyway to recover the data on this drive. Is it just the
circuitry that has gone or has the data also gone? Or is it touch and
go?

I was thinking of buying another Seagate drive, unscrewing the
electronic
circuitry from the old one and screwing on the new one so that I could
recover the data? Would this work?

I know companies used to charge a fortune for this kind of thing a few
years
back - do they still charge a fortune? Hasn't a 'cheap' home-based
product
for such an event come on the market?

J.