Viper is gonna be gone for a while...

Well today I come home to play some CoD4 and PC wouldn't load. It froze up so I let it sit - for about an hour - after that I shut it down and checked the BIOS. It recognized SATA 1 (my CD drive) but not SATA 0 (my HD).

So long and short I think I have a dead HD. Damnit. I checked connections, wires ect with no luck. Luckly (thank the Lord) I still have a warrantly on the PC itself. So tomorrow I'm going to Best Buy and gonna see what the Geeks can do. Hopefully I can get at least some of the data off of it.

So I just wanted to say that I might not be as active for a while till I get it fixed. Thankfully I got a laptop last year so I will (hopefully) be able to get on here sometimes, but as far as gaming goes I'm done until my rig is back up.

I'm looking at getting a 1 TB (sadly not a SSD) but I'm trying to compare makes/models. I'm stuck between Seagate Barracuda and Western Digital.
The best one I have found (so far) is a Western Digital 1 TB, 7200RPM, 64Mb cache, 6GB/s interface that comes with a 5-year warranty for $89.99

If you guys could offer any help in deciding between makes/models I would appreciate it.

oh sad

Yea....
Just got a call from Best Buy and they said its dead. They tried plugging it into different machines, date recovery machines, they even tore it apart and tried putting the platters into a different HD. They couldn't get a thing off of it. So now I have to get some Vista re-installation disks from Dell. They said if I got the disks they would put Vista back on it, along with any other programs I had on it before.

perfect time to upgrade to win 7 lol