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Seabreeze · Rated PG

I have a two year old HP That I stored a lot of information on for my websites. HTML and JavaScript and basicially everything, passwords, Deamweaver CS4, Flash, Fireworks, and Adobe Pro Extended. About two weeks ago I could hear the fans speed up and slow down in the power supply. Seem even with most programs off to conserve the CPU I noticed I always was pegging out at 100 percent. Last week the curser went crazy like my first wife, so I decided to change the power supply with an equal. As soon as I pressed the on switch I heard a pop and the power supply and fans ran but not the hard drive, I need to recover the data on the drive even if I need to purchase the same brand and remove the PC and retrieve. My question is there something of better quality that I can put the data on and not need to worry about losing everything? Does anyone here have any good ideas of how I can resolve this? Hitachi Deskstar Hard Drive P7K500 Quality or a Big Mistake? I have photos of the burned board on bottom but am not allowed to post URL here from Flickr. Bang Head

Thanks, Sea Breeze