Less than 24 hours after I have resumed playing I will have to bail out again for awhile. I came back into the room to check on ogame every so often as usual but this last time I found the system on the bootup screen.. I go ahead and log it back in and it tells me to choose a valid bootup device.. wash rinse and sure enough it repeats...

OMFG me tells myself and take the cover off... After pulling this cord and poking that button and a whole lotta curse words later I have determined that the primary disk is no longer being recognized by the system. I have changed cables and double checked settings but to no ado.. other disks are recognized but when I stck the primary cable back on this particular disk than nothing at all.. Just continual "choose valid boot device" message... Bios says no IDE master detected.. If I go to a sata disk would this be a little more dependable??

I rushed right down to an internet cafe to get the game suspended again and tell you guys all my woes...