I will receive the lubricant on Saturday. Maybe sooner.

I know I should post a new thread about the hard drive, and I probably will but I have a question first:

Which capacitors could be "responsible" for a Hard Drive failure?

I'm told the drive itself is ok, but it won't boot up. Either the card on the hd is dead or the mobo can't boot it properly.

I would have asked Uni to do it but shipping back and forth between France and the US IS bloody expensive.

I want to know if I have to replace the radial capacitors as well as the SMD ones.

I recapped my SE/30 but I didn't change the big radial ones (I think they are 220uF and 440uF respectively, both 16V), and it works now.

As ever, thank you very much for your help