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LaTech · Rated XXX

Ok...here's the deal...

I woke up this morning, started some MP3's and went abotu getting ready for work. I called my gf and talked to her for about 15 min and went back in the computer room to change the song (it was quiet). I clicked on a song, and then noticed the wonderful noise that I had been dreading since I built this computer - The click of death. Yes...that's right...my MP3 hard drive (with roughly 5000+ mp3's (all legal, of course)) hosed itself.

After saying a few choice words, I shut down my computer and unhooked the 80 GB hard drive (piece of crap). I rebooted the computer...and it says: "Disk boot failure" blah blah blah. Oh hell. My main hard drive is a SATA 74GB Raptor. It's the BOOT hard drive, with the OS and everything on it. All my stories (I have another good one to post...assuming I can get it back). All my games. All my pictures (of trips I've been on recently). So, I decided that apparently, the system needed a hard drive on there that was an ATA HD so that it could boot SATA (which it was doing before). I have a spare 40 GB and I hooked it up. "Disk Boot Failure..." Joy.

Normally, I don't think it would be that much of a problem. I usually can think things through without problem...but this morning, I was just so frustrated that I shut everything down and came to work.

Does ANYONE have any ideas? I'm considering putting the FUBAR HD in the freezer to see if I can extract some data from it (I read once that it is supposed to work). Any idea why the SATA one won't work? Anything?!

LaTech