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thanks guys, I guess im just going to go with the 2 hard drive coolers in my current system.. Do they run off the same power source as the hard drives? I dont think I have any more power sources for them if so, I'm running 2 hard drives and a dvdrw.. if this doesnt solve it I'm going to send the...

Thanks for all the replies guys! ok heres the latest news, when I hook either drive up (that locked) as Slave I can access it and browse folders, but when I get to MyDocuments/*MainUser*/ I get ACCESS DENIED. But I can go into all the other folders, the problem is all my files are in...

ok so I tried to restart to activate s.m.a.r.t and that was it! disk read error ;[ no amount of dropping was going to bring it back this time. I wish I had backed up more data. Anyway, I'm definately going to build a new PC I cant take this anymore! do you think it could be something with the...

Thanks, so you think its heat related? Its an older system 800mhz pro1200 board with close to 800mb of RAM. The only fans in the case are for the power supply and processor, but I do keep the side of the case open and my house is usually cold. Is this not enough cooling? I've been wanting to...

Ok so I've gone thru like 5 hard drives in the last year, usually each time I get Disk Read Error or it wont even try to detect it in bios. I read a recovery book with IT suggestions where they talked about heads locking up etc. and they said to take the hard drive out and drop it flat on its...