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Subject: Re: Lightning-fried disk
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>	Does it probe at all ? (i.e. BIOS wise)  If not,
> chances are the media is ok, so you can "just" find an
>identical drive, and mount the logic from that one on 
>the sick disk -- it's doable for most disks.  Otherwise,
>you'll have to go the professional recovery :-|

 It doesn't probe at BIOS time. I'll try your trick if
I can locate a similar disk, otherwise it's off to the
professionals.

later,

Peter.