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Originally Posted by poorman  Long story so I hope I read this correctly.
It just sounds like you fried the hard disk. It has its own logic board as well. The enclosure is really no more than a IDE controller with the ability to communicate over the USB. |
Yeah, i've swapped over both of the boards - both the board under the hard drive AND the USB-board.
The drive is now "operational", but just the computer won't fully recognise it, whereas before the board changes it wouldn't even spin up.