I use Seagate series 7 and 8.
It's a 80gig ide and a 160gigs s-ata.
I'm going to re-install shortly now.
My systems drive is to be a Samsung spinpoint 400gigs.
I will also soon put this computer to the slaughters... and let it resurrect
as much better! Motherboard, ram, CPU and psu and cabinet is going to the great heap of molex...
The Imperial Cruiser will be my revenge! Hahaha!

Hehe!
As I wrote before, I doctored my XP install a bit to much. that was the problem...
Won't be doing that again!
As it turns out, I didnt have enough user profiles on my computer, so my root user went dead, sort of.
What a daft problem! (all hdd partitions became invisible and not possible to see... not very nifty that...)
Imperial