well, turns out it wasnt the main drive, it was my barracuda *500gb 7200.11 version* that kicked the bucket. Taking a good number of games, movies and art programs with it. It still picks the drive up when loading, but when in windows, it doesnt load the hard drive. Even had to unplug it to make the thing go into windows at one point in time. So now its out, though, im relieved its not my new art drive, and extremely lucky i managed to get my pics off it a 2 months ahead of time. So at least theres that. Now, it looks like i can go on and but that 2tb hard drive i was planning on getting last month, just wish i had done it sooner. but hey, at least i still got my art, so its not all bad. just a few games and stuff that can be replaced, even the save files were backed up off the hard drive so i can restart from any point i left off at. So im all good for now.

Anyways, back to hard drive shopping. XD