Windows does not detect or recognize the drive anymore. Even when connecting it properly, not through the USB2 Caddy.

It is a Western Digital, 80gb, 5xxxRPM (from memory) drive. I don't have it with me at the moment, it's at the suppliers of the thing which blew up.

I don't know the board is burnt out, i'm assuming. There were no scorch marks.

I don't think it would have been a bearing seizing, if it is, it was a lot of bad lugk, since it all happened at once.

When I get it back, i'll do the freezer thing, but since these problems coincided with the power source malfunctioning, I really do think that something somewhere would have burnt out or melted.

Either way, this is a bitch of a problem.
According to this response, you CAN turn your computer on and load into windows xp. So more than likely I'm going to assume that your mobo ISN'T burned out since (so far) it's working properly.

I wonder how long it'll be till this happens to me