Well I checked the header and it didn't look like anything was wrong then I checked my cable. I bought one of the two hdd cables that apparently had crimping issues. I looked at the middle connector and low and behold it looked a little shady. So I broke out the pliers and crimped it a little tighter. Then I discovered I had a 250gb hdd lying around from a laptop someone had brought in for repair and never picked up. So I slapped the hdd in and I am now in the long and arduous process of uploading all of my music back to the player.

I've got about 240gb of music which all of it isn't going on there but it is going to take a few days to make it happen....wish me luck with it!

BTW I didn't stress test the hdd, are there any signs of a bad hdd I should be on the look out for? It formatted and pumped ok but I have had a 0x80040038 error....anyone know what that is?