Trouble looming...

[Wing Nut]

Well, in the middle of installing Call of Duty last night, my computer crashed big time.

[4_Series_Scania]

I'd check the partitions integrity using whatever program you created the partitions with, in my case, Partition Magic.

I've has a similar thing happen to me before, the program cured it.

But, that said, it sounds to me your hard drive has lost its will to live....  :'(

[Weather_Man]

If you have WinXP, with the WinXP disk in, boot into the recovery console (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/docu ... rview.mspx) and run a CHKDSK on the D: partition. It should be able to clear up any problems with it. It's a bit better than running a disk check from within Windows.

Once in the recovery console, at the prompt, type chkdsk D: /p

That'll try to mark and isolate bad sectors and recover data. If the drive is too far gone for this to work, then it's time to get a new HDD.