>It sounds like you may have 2 drives in a RAID configuration (hopefully RAID1). If so, you need to be careful with perceived failures.

No, no RAID is in effect.

>As an example, I have 2 drives in RAID1 on my main dev workstation. They use the RAID functionality in the motherboard's ICH10R controller. I've had 4 single drive failures in the last 3 or so years; what happens is:

The ghost drive, the new one, has been put in the PC and we ended up with similar situations. However, that drive is cleaned of errors, which was not the case of the old one with so many bad sectors.

We also removed the 2nd drive, the d: one, so to make sure it was not in effect. That drive has been checked and it doesn't appear to have any problem.

The ghost image, however, may have grabbed a virus, which is something we still have in the equation. That's the only thing so far we believe might be the cause of all those bad reactions. This will be checked over the weekend.

I'll know more by Monday morning of the outcome.

Thanks for the other referecences you provided in the other message.