My PC is currently dead. Friday night after arriving home my PC was on but not running. I shut it down thinking that a power surge had done it in. Turns out after some investigation, that my new hard drive died and it cooked itself. I plugged in another power supply and fired it up and literally a puff of smoke and a burning smell arose from it. CRAP!!!

My intention now is to take the drives into work and see if I can get the data off them. If so, great!. I will rebuild then. If not, I am going to be one VERY unhappy camper.

UPDATE I am able to read the data off the 2 other drives and I have started making the archives necessary to rebuild. Next step - hardware. I think I lost my video card (proximity to the drive that smoked) and will have to check out other things as this progresses.