I managed to convince my company to ship my computer to me ( I live in Liberia). It arrived and it looked like it had made it without any abuse.
However, I discovered that I couldn't get to one of my HDD so I opened up the back panel to get to the drive cages and found chaos. The case is a Fractal Design Mini C so you can't see the drive bays from the motherboard side.
The internal drive cage had been bent so the HDs were in a pile on the bottom and the top half of the SATA cable had sapped off and was stuck in the drive and the other end hanging free. As I tried to extract the HDs from this mess I got zapped! I pulled the plug from the power supply, but as I tried to turn off the PSU switch I got an even bigger shock. I continued to get shocked as I tried to move the drives.
The computer was properly declared and insured, so I just need to figure out what to do and make a claim. Any ideas?
My current theory is it got dropped really hard, which was enough for the weight of the HDD to bend the cage and snap the cable. I don't think it is a stretch to think that some of the internal components on the PSU are now similarly damaged. I tried to plug in the other HD to the working SATA cable to see if the drive was OK, but got shocked so I gave up for now.
Would it be enough to just replace the case, PSU and SATA cable? I'm tempted to also include the cost of the HD since i'm not sure if it works yet.