Bad Belt Complained here a few weeks ago about a slow rate of transfer between the information on one hard drive and the secondary D:\ drive. It also took like 4 1/2 hours to do a scandisk and Defrag. Substantially longer than before, but got it done anyway. Overnight. Then Disk Full problems began. Via talley it did not add up to that as reported via Properties. Then the video board went bad and the whole computer got into the way one afternoon. I moved it, then it was not far enough away from my feet so picked it up and moved it further. Then as it was tilted a rattling was heard. Wattzat? Found odd shaped chips of plastic rattling around in the bottom of the case, but where from? Humm, the (D:) hard drive belt looks loose too, lets push it in. And then it happened. The intermediate end sprung apart. One end was wholey broken off. Rotted off. I yanked the belt and replaced with another, and Wa-zoo does it fly now. I ran another scandisk and it finished up in like 20 minutes as compared to hours before. Did not realize that a ahrd drive did not need all connections in order to work. Installed a new (used) hard drive belt and it goes good now. Wm.

Just wondering, by hard drive "belt", do you mean the flat ribbon cable that connects the hard drive to the motherboard? Otherwise, I really don't know what a hard drive belt is.

A damaged data cable was one of the possibilities mentioned in the previous thread. Could the plastic pieces be broken fan blades from a cooling fan?

Sometimes these threads really make you think. I was trying to figure out if this was a spoof post when the ribbon cable was mentioned. I think you guy have probably nailed it in 2 responses.

HDD Belt? I wondered that as well. Is that next to the Fan Belt? Sorry. :) Couldn't resist. LOL "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

I lol'd too. =D It seems kinda strange that the IDE cable would've rotted through, though...

I've seen some creative naming of parts. This one gets special mention. One of my favs is PSU for power supply. No doubt we'll soon be seeing KBDU, mouseU and certainly not least, CPUU. LOL ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2