ooh that sux!
Dunno anything about this situation...but.
Maybe something happened during the update that hurt ur HDD.
I did some wrong button presses in GentooX one day, and accidently deleted everything on E,Including the files needed to run GentooX,it froze up,(had to hit power button)then I had to do a whole bunch of sh_t to get er up and runnin again,(had cut pasted all the files into my Gentoox\Home directory).
anywho...that was the very last day that my DVD drive ever worked like it was supposed to.
It was a Samsung,and it always read everything, but after that it barely read anything...People said it was just "coincidence" that my DVD Laser had gone out at the same time that I made this mistake....but I do NOT belive that, I believe that I Fu__ed up the hardware cause it "wigged" out when I did what I did.
I could be wrong, but is it possible that during MS's so called "Update", that everything wasnt there that was supposed to be there, so something got lost or corrupt along the way and messed up the HDD in kinda the same manner I think my DVD drive?(Any Hardware can die!)
Im just speculating here (that should be noted I guess), but I FIRMLY believe that what I did cause my dvd drive to error,and then it lost allignment or something,even though everyone here told me it was just "coincidence that my DVD drive went out at the EXACT same time that I made this horrible mistake.
I guess I should give the details of what I did b4 anyone asks?
I was running Gentoox, everything normals as it should be. had su - ed into root, and was cutting one folder from the root of E...but when I highlighted the folder I wanted to cut/paste, I didnt realise that off the top of my screen, the E (its just a folder in Gentoox XFFM) was highlighted, so I cut/pasted my whole E (untill it got to the Gentoox Files and went crazy on itself) into my gentoox home directoy.