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Serves me right for getting a Western Digital drive. Its a little above a year old. I came back from a week long trip to Morocco today and found out that it has bad sectors and my user profile file is corrupted and crashes explorer.exe process whenever it loads.

Off to buy a new drive tomorrow, any suggestions? Above all I need stability, right now Im thinking of going Seagate Barracuda.

If you need stability you should get a business level drive. For Seagate that's the Constellation ES or Barracuda ES.2. On paper those last (or have a "Mean Time Between Fail") of 10 times longer.

Went out and bought a 1,5 TB Barracuda with 32mb cache. Hope it lasts longer than WD.

Ok, time for some more problems. I installed the new seagate and it runs fine with a new system.

When I tried to plug in the old drive however, even though win7 booted from the new disk, it would stop loading mid way. BIOS detects the drive OK (although it does so slowly and with a noticeable hiccup). When I rebooted win7 loaded ok but I couldnt see the old drive.

What can I do? I really need some of the stuff on the old drive.

Buy an external drive case for like 20 bucks and just stick the old drive in it and plug it into a USB port after Windows is already loaded? That's the easiest solution I can think of.

Tolya wrote:Ok, time for some more problems. I installed the new seagate and it runs fine with a new system.

When I tried to plug in the old drive however, even though win7 booted from the new disk, it would stop loading mid way. BIOS detects the drive OK (although it does so slowly and with a noticeable hiccup). When I rebooted win7 loaded ok but I couldnt see the old drive.

What can I do? I really need some of the stuff on the old drive.

Back your data up on a separate drive from now on?