My main harddrive with all important data damaged?

[Ludwig Von Cookie Koopa]

So I plugged it back in, and press power. Red embers and blue electrical looking sparks lite up. I plugged it out, I should have plugged it out sooner. Then it started to smoke.

It is a DiamondMax Plus 9 ATA/133 HDD.

The board PCB under the drive a chip has exploded.

So I ordered a replacement PCB, and I hear sounds that I never heard before.

like a clicking sound ( which means it has problems reading the head ) but it is followed by a high pitch beeping noise. )

I think it might something wrong machinically inside or the PCB is not the right make. Hopefully it is just the PCB, because

now I have to go threw the painfull decison making proccessor of replacing and recoving the drive.

The most important thing is the text files, but there is also everything else..