Alan,

My sympathies.

When my PC's power supply went wild last year, it killed the hard drive. I
had an identical hard drive bought at the same time, and I swapped
controller boards. Although the drive now spun up, it would not work. My
hypothesis is the head electronics also died. Your mileage may vary, but
making regular backups is your best insurance. Your computer can die at any
time with no warning.

I did price data recovery. The economy service(7 days) was over $2000. This
was a 20 meg maxtor drive. I was fairly well backed up, I only lost one
small pc board design, so I didn't take them up on their generous offer :)

 -Bob

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