"firstly, your grounding technique applies to boxes that are shut down (and the power cord disconnected, or the power supply switch flipped to 0)...a running box is a totally different animal"

errm im not shur what you meen there...my grounding technique is to touch the metal parts of the case and or the ground *****/middle prong on an outlet....i thought thats how it was supposed to be done...please correct me if im wrong because i dont want to fry anything els...

"second, the underside of a HDD has all those little contacts from the back side of the board...so if you touch those, you are probably wrecking havoc "

i never touched the bored at all.

"in a nutshell, you did something very, very, stupid...live and learn"

now i know....and i wont ever make the same mistake again...

*feels stupid and a little sick to stomach*