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Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 2207924" data-attributes="member: 13654">Somebody check me if I'm wrong but any part of your computer that uses electricity has the capability to fry along with a motherboard, CPU, et. al.  Since that includes everything in your computer you need to accept the possiblity of more than just MB damage.  Hard drives are doubly vulnerable.  In addition to its hard circuitry it spends it's life reading and writing to an extremely rapidly spinning piece of magnetic media.  When you introduce power surges and power dropouts into the mix you can VERY easily ruin anything that your hard drive keeps track of - like File Allocation Tables and boot tracks.I agree with the others - mount it as a slave drive and pull everything important off of it now while you still can access it.  Then at the very least wipe it clean and start with a fresh install.  Personally, I would never trust it again and if I ever bothered to use it at all it would be strictly for backups or non-critical data storage, and never again as a boot drive.  I've had my fair share of drives get freaked and they are NEVER the same again IME.BTW, invest in a UPS.  They are NOT costly.  In fact they are so cheap there is simply no excuse for not having one for at least your case and monitor if not all your components.  A $35-$50  APC 6 port UPS would have saved you the cost of replacing motherboard, CPU, and scrambling to salvage your hard drive.I doubt that it will, but you never know.  Chkdsk fixed problems on a hard drive or two for me back under Win98, but I haven't personally SEEN it do anything but waste time after XP came along.Well, like I was saying you can never tell what'll get fried with a power surge - I once had a power surge blow out the fuse on a surge protector strip and go on to fry a VCR while leaving a 50" projection TV unharmed.  It won't hurt to try but I think you're probably just grasping at straws there.Throwing gobs of money at computers can always make them start working again - but seldom can repair the damage left in their wake when they go non-linear.</blockquote>

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