My wife currently has an ASUS A8N-VM mobo with a Maxtor 100GB HDD. I woke up four nights ago to the smell of burning circuit board only to find her power supply completely fried (I later pulled the supply out and tested it independently to confirm it was the culprit … yeah it stank pretty bad). I replaced the supply and turned it back on and … nothing happened.
Luckily I had another computer with the same exact components nearby that I could let her use, and so pulled out her HDD and transferred it over. The only problem is that the new computer won’t detect the HDD in Bios or in Windows XP. Note that it DOES detect the same exact model and size HDD that was in there originally, just not the one my wife has her data on.
Is the HDD fried? I tried switching cables, booting with it plugged to both SATA slots, booting with just it in, it was never detected. Also tried adding new hardware in Windows, likewise no luck.
