On 21/02/2013 15:46, David wrote:
> I would have happily put the drive into another machine running
Linux,
> mount it and try to salvage any important data of it, yes.
Really? Ignoring the Linux part if the drive was bad it could damage
another computer no matter what OS it was using.
If the machine was powering up but blue-screening that pretty much rules
out a short in the disk capable of blowing up another machine.
Gordan