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Went away last weekend, shutting down all PCs.  Returned to encounter an
odor of electronic components burning/shorting out.  Discovered that an old
HP I use for device programming would not boot.  Turns out the circuit
board on the HD literally fried; one corner black & crumbling.  Drive
contains data that cannot be replaced (please no comments on backing up;
usually back up to cd once a month, but lapsed on this machine for the last
2 months).

Question 1:  What could have caused this?

Question 2:  Is it possible to replace circuit board on HD (if I can find
it) and maybe recover data?



Ian Carmichael

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