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[Z!re]

First off, you can't really call it maintenance, it was trying to access the HD which was password protected through Windows 2000 and we couldn't in so I got a suggesstion to try and use a second HD and format the other HD, and I nkew what I was doing, just the HD's power input place was a square so the PSU fit both ways, I could have looked at the colors, but that would require me to to extra work.

Well, I didn't call it maintainance, I called it "maintainance" ;-) You clearly didn't know what you were doing, as whitetiger said, you could have done it very easily with a boot disk. Why is the power connector on your harddrive square? Usually both the socket on the harddrive and the cable from the PSU are rectangular with beveled edges on one side to prevent you from hooking it up the wrong way round.

Even if hooked up wrong, there's really no way there'd be power in the HD power cables, strong enough to fry it, with the computer turned off.
If there was, the HD would simply be.. on.. Easy as that.. (Or, your motherboard would be fucked up beyond all working possibilities by pumping that much electricity to the HD)

In addition, the HD take +12V, +5V, none of which are powerful enough to even give you a TINY hint of anything going wrong. Nowhere near enough to create a poff or smoke..

and the screwdriver I used was coated with a material that is resistant to 10,000 volts which is much more then your average apartment outlet.

As profficient with electronics as you seem to be, you'd be aware that powerspikes, from plugging in, or unplugging cables can go way above 10'000 volts with ease..

I smell made up bullshit here..