Here's mine - I have an IDE maxtor 200 gig hdd and when I pull the molex out to put a new mainboard in, on of the male pins breaks off. Believing myself to be the handy sort and having only molex male pin shards to work with, I grab my trusty soldering sucker, the big soldering iron at the top of my electrical tool box, a small drill bit and a molex Y-adapter from the junkbox. 15 minutes later a new molex is dangling out of the HDD on the end of a short pigtail.
Back into the computer in question. Drive in question not recognized by BIOS. Curse, Jiggle connectors, reboot. BIOS takes forever to detect drive - concludes it is a Maxtor Bravo - which it never was before. Windoze doesn't see it.
Kiss data goodbye, Curse self for using inappropriately large soldering iron in a rush and frying some chip near the molex pads, put HDD on shelf.
One week later, doing new system build. Pull dead Maxtor off shelf, hook it up for jollies. Bios recognizes as proper Maxtor model #. Boots, data intact, SMART reports drive is happy as a clam.
WTF? Something on that shelf has magical powers.... A fried Athlon found resurrection there too.
