Well, after getting Windows reinstalled on my hard drive, and a series of updates later, I started the process of reinstalling my commonly used applications. However, one thing I did notice was the number of times a downloaded executable, upon running, was being marked as corrupted by their own installer, even when freshly downloaded from the web. After wrestling with those for a few hours, I decided it was time to reinstall World of Warcraft. Although I planned on keeping the old installation intact, for some reason it was dead.When I attempted to run the installation, I kept receiving an error from the Blizzard Installer telling me that my common.mpq file was faulty and that there might be a problem with my C: Drive. When I googled this error, I found that a lot of people seem to have this problem, even though this is the first time I've ever seen it in the many installations I've done. So... I ended up installing it to my external drive and then planned on moving it to C: manually. However, I'm beginning to believe the issue I had with that new SATA drive not working had nothing to do with my motherboard (seeing as how I got the same issues) but more to do with the old SATA drive itself as it is now causing Vista and all installed programs to act oddly. So, when I get home, I think I am going to do another reinstall of windows, but this time to my other SATA drive and remove the old one. I'm running out of options and I should hit on the cause of this anomoly soon.
