Have I Killed My HD?

[skeetre]

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.

Thanks.

Brian

 

[Eguy]

Brian;

"While the PC was on I went to plug in the power connection for the HD..."

Sorry Brian, but that is the fastest way I know of to make a door stop or paper-weight.

Ed Please let me know if the sugestion(s) I provide are helpful to you.
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