Replacement PCB for maxtor drive?

I recently fried my HD(note to self: don't touch power cables while computer is running).

Now it's all klicky klicky and isn't detected by anything. Anyhow it probably is the PCB that lost it's life, meaning that if i get the right pcb i can ressurect it. It's a Maxtor drive and the internets tell me i more or less just need to find a maxtor HD with the same PCBA code and swap the boards while ignoring all the other numbers and whatnot. Is this really the case or do i have to mind any other variables now before i start chasing retired maxtor drives?

maxtor drives have fairly specific model numbers.

Just search ebay for that number (Be sure to use the "Search in title and description" option) and you'll get the exact same hard drive.

Pretty straightforward.

I've read that even if you find an identical PCB, you still may not have complete success.  Something like an hdd having eeprom with a unique list of its bad sectors marked as bad. Substituting another drive's PCB+eeprom will likely cause bad sectors to be read and good ones to be ignored...

Um, if it's "klicky klicky" that means something is fucked up with the mechanisms inside the drive, like a head crash.

A PCB swap will do nothing.

>>4
It will provide lulz though.

>>4
The internet tubes tell me it can klick because of faulty pcb. And as nothing manage to detect the drive i'm pretty sure that the pcb is fried. My other drives that have gone klicky have atleast been detectable and readable to some extent while this one is dead as a rock.

>>6
The internet tubes tell me it can klick because of faulty pcb
No, if it clicks you better get your data the fuck out of your disk before it becomes completely unreadable. Never continue with a hard disk that made weird noise, it means it's fubared.

>>7
Don't make me get out the disk.

I had a maxtor scorch it's board a while back... pulled the board off my buddies that was about 4 serial numbers off (bought them together) and killed his board as well.  we don't talk much anymore.