Well, not just a 40 gig, thats just my experience
OK, it is around ten oclock, i was sitting at home playing Counter Strike when it happened. In desperation, I stomp my foot on the ground, and it miraculously hits my surge protector's switch, turning off the power. So Im not too happy, but im not too mad either. So, I turn it back on, turn on my comp, and BAM!, "Read disk error". So i flip out my XP disk, try to boot from cd, says checking system hardware blah, and then goes to a black screen and freezes. So I then make a boot disk. After running the boot disk, It says that there are no FAT32 or FAT partitions found, so I am like, RRRRRRRRRRRRRR really mad. I then have my friend check and see if a virus attacked it or if he could wipe it and install XP on it. It fails miserably. Anyone wanna sell me a hdd cheap, lol? Also, if you are good with computers, tell me how that happened please, because it doesn't seem logical to me.
THanx,
Jay