I can sympathize as I had the same happen about 6 weeks ago. Check that the port on your network hub, and that modem are not blown as well as the network card. On my system it blew the network card and the port it was connected to, plus the printer port and laser printer. I now cringe every time I hear thunder.
There should be no reason you can not put the drive in a USB box. graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Walter Hamler wrote: > My house and studio took a major lightning strike on Thur afternoon. Lots of > physical damage to the studio and lost a lot of electronics. > My destop computer, barely a year old, lost the monitor and the ethernet > portion of the motheboard. I have tried installing a 10/100 card but so far > I cannot get drivers installed and working. I am down to my laptop for the > time being. > If I cannot get the internet to work on the computer, then I will salvage > parts and buy another. Was wondering if it is feasible to make an external > drive using an enclosure and the sata drive from the computer. It is 250 gig > and quite small. Just don't know how all that works. If not, I can always > installit in any new computer I get as a data/backup drive. > > Walt > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
