just do what n00bpwner360 said...don't worry about hiding it just place it anywhere, put some tap down on wherever you intend to put it then put some tape on top of it to hold the resistor down and solder a wire to each leg and to each pad (resistors don't have a polarity, meaning it doesn't matter which wire goes to which pad). Hope that helps

gigabite

Agreed, don't bridge it. If you desoldered it, get a 10k ohm resistor from radioshack or wherever, hide it somewhere in the drive (on the other side of the circuit board maybe?) and then run 2 wires from it to the pads where the original resistor went. (Or you could get an SMD resistor that's 10k but I guess they are harder to come by)

hell no. resistors are there for a reason. if you bridge a 10 kohm resistor, you're likely letting 4-10x more voltage flow than intended. BAD idea.