I believe my hard drive death was caused by lightning. We had some spectacular lightning storms back in early summer, and the cable node box out at the road got took out. From that day forward, my hard drive never worked right again. But a new hard drive took care of that problem.
"Poorman said that mine was too old and slow and prone to crashes (true), so he built me a new FAST system for my birthday/anniversary present! "
As Eric Cartman from South Park says,"Hella cool."