Looks like the Hard Drive will be making a trip to IBM for a replacement. Good news is that there is a 3 year warranty on the hard drive.

Too bad it's so near Christmas and the only hard drives I can find are 810 megs :) Hey, is there a record for the smallest hard drive in an empeg??

I am hunting some more though but I will have to give in by Friday if I don't find anything... we got to have some Christmas music to listen to afterall!