Right. Well, I take it all back. It appears as if the connection to my hard drive is a little bit "iffy" at best. While it was booting up, I decided to put a little more force behind the cable into the hard drive, and the hard drive booted up.. I don't think it is the cable though, as on my other laptop drive (they are both ibm travelstars) it was not neccesery for me to put force on the back of the cable in order for it to make a good connection... Any ideas?