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

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....  :'(

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.