PSU died, is hard drive fried? Are other components damaged?

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Published on 2010-03-12T02:43:51Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 2:47 UTC
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After discovering and replacing my dead PSU, I was able to boot back into Windows. Everything seems to be working fine, however, one hard drive is not. Windows 7 says that this SATA hard drive needs to be formatted before it can work. Can the data be recovered? Also, is there a way to check the integrity of the other components of my computer or assume they will work fine?

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