Hard Drive Crash

My office desktop's hard drive finally came to a halting stop. Its been giving me a weird sound now-and-then like the hard drive spindle going nuts and hitting something. But since I have 3 x hard drives inside, I was not sure which one was causing the problem. But finally, it refused to boot up today so I guess its the main SATA drive after all.

I guess its about time I reinstalled a new Windows anyway. That XP has been around for so many years -- I don't recall anymore. Lots of components have been acting strangely:

• DivX video output goes haywire
• Visual Studio cannot debug ASP.NET applications
• Constantly running out of disk space in the system Drive C
• The onboard USB ports stopped working

So maybe this is for the better. I've ordered a new 500GB SATA. That should relieve me of my disk spaces woes for awhile. :)