Originally Posted by Stu.H
Thats why I back up everything thats worth something to other media
Unless its a PSU problem, you are pretty much screwed, unless you fancy paying a LOT of money for a data retrieval company to sort it

it makes all thenoises and you can hear it whiring about inside and it starts to hum when the power is applied, but other than that it just says it's currupt and unreadable