>     It appears that I've short-circuited my HD.  With the HD disconnected
> (power) I turned on the PC as I was doing some work on other hardware.
> White the PC was on I went to plug in the power connection for the HD when
> an arc jumped between the plug and the connectors on the HD.  So
> now the HD
> is not recognized by the BIOS and the HD light is on constantly with no
> sounds of spinning up/down or anything else.  And the BIOS can find no
> location (floppy, HD, CD) with the OS.  Have I done irrepairable damage to
> the HD?  Most of the data was recently backed up but if I could get it up
> and running for a few minutes I could pull off those remaining files.  Any
> help is appreciated.

        I'd have to say you fried the board on your hard drive, I doubt you will
get it working again. About the only way to get at the data now would be to
replace the board, if you can find an IDENTICAL working drive then swaping
the boards is an easy task. Good luck. TTYL

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