1) A massive spike can easily travel from the disk head to the platter
itself. Or it could 'disorganise' the controller so it decides to park
wherever it is. Controller is dead for sure, disk is alive if you were
lucky...

2) If the platters and heads are still alive, you can replace the controller
from an identical drive. And identical is _exactly_ identical. I don't know
how big/new the drive is, but 2nd hand shopping would be best. Depends on
where you are located, I know a few sites, but it's mostly dutch people
there...

3) Nope... All I can give you is my blessing...

Last resort would be a professional data recovery company. Think big $$$
here. You can have a brand new big drive array for the same price probably,
but it all depends on what you've lost and how badly you want it back.

Good luck,
Claudio

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1. What damage would a massive spike (such as that caused by a SMPS going
bang) do to a HDD?
     Dead controller board, dead drive platters or both?

2. If it's just the controller board that has gone, then could I swap it
with a
known working board form an identical HDD?

3. Anyone got a spare working Fujitsu MPE3084 that they would part with?

Alan

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