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<blockquote data-quote="Zappo" data-source="post: 1892649" data-attributes="member: 633"><p>Thanks for all the info. I've spent the afternoon working on the problem. The extent of the damage is unbelievable; <em>everything</em> that was connected to the box has been burnt save for the mouse, screen and network card. I won't seek damages from the electrical company; I think that the problem was at least partly in the AC feed (it wasn't particularly cheap, either!), and it is unlikely that I could get money from them. I'll check the grounding too and make sure it is properly connected.</p><p> </p><p> Fortunately though, I have been able to fix one of the HDs myself; I've bought an identical one and swapped the controllers. It is now working well. It was the disk with the thesis. Yay! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p> It was not the disk with the D&D stuff. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></p><p> The disk with the D&D stuff (and, actually, most everything else that I was working on) is a 40GB IBM DeskStar. Since I was able to fix the Maxtor, I'll try to fix this one too if I can find an identical one somewhere. If that doesn't work, I'll look into ibas, but seeing the damage I'm afraid that I won't be able to afford even a relatively cheap data recovery, because I'm going to have to buy a whole new computer.</p><p> </p><p> About the UPS - I'll buy it now, but I never thought that an UPS was something that a home user would reasonably use. I did backups, but not every day or even every week. I'm not a business... I thought that destruction of both HDs was very unlikely (and maybe it is and I got real unlucky).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zappo, post: 1892649, member: 633"] Thanks for all the info. I've spent the afternoon working on the problem. The extent of the damage is unbelievable; [i]everything[/i] that was connected to the box has been burnt save for the mouse, screen and network card. I won't seek damages from the electrical company; I think that the problem was at least partly in the AC feed (it wasn't particularly cheap, either!), and it is unlikely that I could get money from them. I'll check the grounding too and make sure it is properly connected. Fortunately though, I have been able to fix one of the HDs myself; I've bought an identical one and swapped the controllers. It is now working well. It was the disk with the thesis. Yay! :) It was not the disk with the D&D stuff. :( The disk with the D&D stuff (and, actually, most everything else that I was working on) is a 40GB IBM DeskStar. Since I was able to fix the Maxtor, I'll try to fix this one too if I can find an identical one somewhere. If that doesn't work, I'll look into ibas, but seeing the damage I'm afraid that I won't be able to afford even a relatively cheap data recovery, because I'm going to have to buy a whole new computer. About the UPS - I'll buy it now, but I never thought that an UPS was something that a home user would reasonably use. I did backups, but not every day or even every week. I'm not a business... I thought that destruction of both HDs was very unlikely (and maybe it is and I got real unlucky). [/QUOTE]
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