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rawr. I have to agree with SESaskDFC. the progys would have to be reinstalled anyway, so best to keep personal docs/data on a diff. partition and keep os/progys on one. "Hello, my name is Daniel, and I am an Everquest Addict..."

Thanks much for the replies guys, i am extremely frustrated, have built many *many* computers, and only my own seem to do this. to follow up: happened in two seperate cases? Yes. Two seperate power supplies, system boards, etc? *everything* was changed, because i could not pinpoint the...

Any special sort of failure? >unmountable boot volume Smells, smoke , etc? >nada. just LOUD clank sound every time i start up/shut down, and very audable spinning-up sound. What kind of drives? >Western Digital, tried 40/60/80GB. Something grounded? >grounding appears to be fine, though...

Through the last 3 months i have been through about 8 hard drives. I have no clue why. I have built a new tower, all new parts, nothing salvaged from the old tower, and the results are the same. Is it possible that the power from the outlet is fluxuating and causing my hard drives to burn out...