About 5 years ago, I had a contoller circuit board on a Seagate drive catch fire. It was a common drive, so I bid on one on EBay that matched the various model numbers in tiny print on the drive. I then exchanged the circuit board for the one I bought and it worked. Seeing that my Poser runtime was on the drive it was worth the effort.

I could not afford the cost of paying some company to recover the data, and otherwise the drive was dead to me anyway. Obviously, I cannot say if this would work for anyone else, but I am not so clever that I could be the only one who has ever accomplished this.

lmk

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