You now understand why the warnings about not connecting or
disconnecting devices with the power on! Since it was power related, if
there was damage it was most likely to the controller board on the
drive. If that is the case, you should be able to take another identical
drive and swap the electronics boards to get your old drive functioning
again. However, you mention that your OS will not recognize the floppy
or CD. If this is true even when the HD is not connected, then it sounds
like you may have damaged the motherboard. You need to check it out.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
    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.

Brian Sanburn

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