Western Digital Raptor WD360 dead...

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Hi!

Yesterday just as I was playing Planetside my Western Digital Raptor WD360 SATA I just died on me. It refused to reboot properly, and lastly just refused to reformat. Its predecessor of same model had developed bad sectors on the same system. The system is an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboard (AMD XP 3000+ CPU 333mhz FSB, with 2x512mb 333mhz FSB DDR RAM). The hard drive is connected to the onboard Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATALink Controller, which is a RAID controller AFAIK. I wonder if all these HD troubles are because I'm just using a single HD with a RAID controller... does anybody else have info or the same problems? The only thing other than the onboard stuff I have running is my graphics card (Gigabyte Geforce 6800 GT AGP-8X version), LG model 4167B multidisc reader and writer, and a 3.5" Floppy. The OS is Windows 2000, Service Pack 4 with all the updates, with DirectX9.0c, and all the latest drivers for everything else (motherboard, graphics etc etc etc).