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iv'e never seen a hard drive smoke it's usually the heads that crash making the drive unreadable
a method that might work if you don't want to go the expensive recovery method is to buy another harddrive exactly the same as the one thats packed in and swap the circuit board or get someone to swap them for you if you don't feel confident enough and see if the drive will burst back into life
there's a good chance of this working because it sounds like thte fault is electrical rather than physical so the platters and heads with a little luck should be ok
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