My TimothyAMD 500GB Seagate HDD has finally died...sort of. It doesn't stay alive for more than a few minutes.
So I decided it's time to replace the Hard Drive. I ordered a different brand (Toshiba) 500GB HDD 7,200 rpm 32mb.
I'd still rate Seagate better than Western Digital (WD).
This time, instead of Vista Ultimate 32bit, I install Windows 7 64-bit. Everything went smoothly. Earlier sign (back in Flushing) of sometimes-not-able-to-copy-paste in Windows Explorer should be enough warning for me.
While waiting for the Ebay order, I also went to Best Buy to get another 500GB HDD, they only sell Seagate. Oh well, I bought it.
After first installation of Win 7, I accidentally changed the whole disk (while trying to extend more logical partitions) from Basic into Dynamic disk. Thus, creating all sort of complication like not able to boot into O/S. So I had to do a second clean install (even Partition Wizard boot disc doesn't help - options were grayed out). While in Installation Disc's install menu, Shift-F10 load the command shell for me to run "diskpart". Select the drive (Select Drive 0), then type Clean, to remove the dynamic state. Otherwise, those dynamic partitions can't be modified or deleted. Type exit twice to exit the shell.
I should prepare backup images of the O/S (Using the other order of HDD) for future convenience.