[Thinkpad] MS software killed my drive ??

[STeve Andre']

On Tuesday 06 February 2007 22:13:22 Jonathan Berry wrote:
> OT : desktop
>
> My wife's PIII 900, about 6 years old, shut down with the smell
> of burning electrical stuff.
>
> Coming to the scene about 4 minutes later, I found that the
> power supply was hot, the HD was quite warm, and most
> everything else was warm.  Powering up does nothing.  Not a
> sound.
>
> So, my next step will be to replace the power supply with
> one the same rating as the old one, and hope for the best?
> Or should I do something else?

If the drive was used to being on all the time, put it in some
other computer now and try to get the data from it.  There
are a variety of problems that can happen when an elderly
disk is motionless, so I'd try to get the data off it assp.

--STeve Andre'