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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Crichton" data-source="post: 2071071" data-attributes="member: 4779">I'll check 'em out.I have always liked Dell in general. I've actually had good luck with Gateway as well. But a few friends have had nightmare experiences with both. Go figure. My first Gateway, which I bought used - the monitor just died. I sent an email and got a reply that night. I called the guy to give him a credit card number (in case I kept the new monitor and didn't send the other one back) so he would send me a replacement and I could send him the busted one in the same box. It got here in 2 days. I had no extra warranty on the thing.Smooth experience.Oddly enough, a Seagate S-ATA.And since you asked, it started off with a "[size=-1]NTLDR is Missing" error. I found a few help sites and tried to fix the problem with the boot up. Somewhere in the middle of that, the bios stopped recognizing the HD altogether. I took out the HD and found that the power cord would no longer stay plugged in to the back of it. I have ordered a new cord from zipzoomfly.com and am waiting for it to come in.I may still be able to fix this problem and I would REALLY love to get the data off that drive as there is some really important stuff on there. It won't change the fact that I want a new machine, tho. I actually need to return a video card I bought 3 weeks ago come to think of it. The new machine will surely have a better one...[/size]</blockquote>