I think I fried my hard drives, help!

[-=Ambush=-]

Well this sucks. I had just finished modding my computer, Uv lights, new fans , sleving cables, cleaning cables, and so on. It looked very cool. I was tucking in some wires to put on the side case so i could be completly done, when i saw a spark and heard a *BZZZ* and the computer turned off. Apparently what had happened is one of the floppy power connectior had come undone and shocked the metal part of my case.

I powered it on and it seemed to work....until i noticed that it didn't recognise my hard drives. It just goes into POST but stops halfway through and says something amout a boot disk. I went into the bios everythin seems to be fine, but the computer just wont recognise my hard drives. I tried swapping the cables on the mobo with my cdrom and nothin, tried using a differd power connector and nothing, the only thing i haven't tried is useing another IDE cable, but i don't think thats it.

Oh and there is no visible damage on the harddrives, and the shock hit the case, not them.

So am I FUBAR? have a lost my 120Gb and 80Gb maxtors with all information lost?

Any help is apprecited. Thanks.

 

[tread70]

Make sure you dont have a floppy disk in the floppy drive. I have done that one before.

 

[TommyDee291]

Dude, something very very similar happen to me last night. I was working on my mods, similar to yours, I was tucking away all my cables, went to turn on my pc and my harddrives wouldn't power up. I was nearly histerical... For 2 whole hours I was panicing and trying to fix it... Don't ask me how, but i took out all my round ide cables and turned on my computer to see if it worked and it did! So i put them all back in and it worked... so maybe try and see if everything is secure.. also make sure the power cables going to your drives are not supposed to be for your fans or whatever.