Well, in the middle of installing Call of Duty last night, my computer crashed big time.  I have two hard drives with four partitions.

The 120 Gig HD contains:

C:Windows (16 Gig)
E:Multi-media (100 Gig) drives

while the 60 Gig HD contains:

D:Games and Applications (40 Gigs)
G:Flight Simulator (16 Gigs)

Upon startup, I get scandisk reporting thousands of bad file sectors on disk D, and the computer won't boot.  When I unplug the 60 Gig HD, everything works fine, except the programs on those drives of course.

I think it's time for a new drive...  

Kevin

If you have WinXP, with the WinXP disk in, boot into the recovery console (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/r...) 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.