Power Failure during reformat

I was in the middle or a reformat when we had a power cut, which turned of the computer.
I had deleted the primary dos partition and was just starting the create a new partition was at something like 23%. Now ihave no power reaching the hadrdirve at al. The monitor and speakers are still working though. Any ideas as to how to get it back up and running.
Stitch

 

My first guess, cooked power supply.

 

That was my first thought too, just wanted someone else to agree. Where can you get power suply's from and how do you know which to get?????????????
Stitch.
Thanks for all help given

 

Forgot to mention im in the uk so if anyone knows where you can get a power suply posted out to me i would be grateful. (can you get them from amazon?)
Stitch

 

If you open your case, you can get all the specs off your old supply. For price searching, try
pricescan . You can use the link to see if they ship to UK.

 

you can get most power supplies from Maplin, PC world, Novatech, Dabs, these are all in the UK as am I.

 

If you haven't already, try unplugging the power cord from the back of the computer and leaving it unplugged for a while...10-15 minutes is usually more than enough. Then try again. If the power supply has a switch on the back, toggle it off and then back on as well. Doesn't take long and if it works, you've saved the cost of a new power supply.

You might want to look into buying a UPS, too...the cheapest computer insurance you can buy.

 

Thanks for all the sugestiond folks. Ended up getting a new power supply. every thing worked well for a time but the comp has a few serious problems. thes i am working on.
To cut a long story short. Power surge through phone line, modem fried, needed new comp anyway so got one, gave old minus modem to kids, before we got it up and running power suply went, put in new, still more problems so gonna have to do more work on it. thank anyway,
Stitch

 

As you may know, there are surge protectors that have connections for your phone line, too. They seem to be more expensive than they are worth (not more than new hardware) just for the phone connections, but I have lost 2 computers to phone line surges and I won't be without one now.

 

Abraxas
Thanks for the info i will be sure to look them up
thanks
stitch