[Greapyjeory]

Guy, unless you heaved real hard on the cable I doubt that was the issue.. But hey anything is possible..

The reason I suspect the cable is because of the problem being intermittent and it happened on both the HD's I had in it. If it were a bad HD I doubt the problem would be duplicated in a brand new one.

I would suspect if anything the problem will reappear in a day or a few days if its what I think it might be.. Then you have issues that need hard drive software to find and see if the drive is still good or can be fixed..

You could and probably are right. Time will tell.

You still have not said what brand it is so can help further.. Some drives have more issues then others. Example Seagates are known for bad sectors, as for Western Digitals were bad in some series for controllers and just dieing.. Fujitsu had their issues as well..

Sorry about that Francis... The bad / original HD is a 40 gig Samsung. It was a killer when I built the system about 6 or 7 years ago. ( I gave this system to my sister when I built my current one 4 years ago cuz I'm such a nice brother )

I know about the Western Digitals going bad. I've had a couple fail on me over the years.