So, lessie

Windows takes several mins to boot, Fallout 3 just took a half hour to start up. Of my 2 hard drives, windows only reports the free space on one partition of one drive.. And it's already taken an hour to to get half way through transferring 1.22 gb from said visible partition to USB drive.

Good news, I'm pretty sure it's just the hard drive dieng a slow and horrible death, bad news is I don't know what all can be salvaged from it before it goes to crap. Though I don't think there is toooooooo much that is important that I'd lose permanently. Depends on if my picture folder finishes copying.