I gotta say d00d..you really hosed it...I mean really, hot swapping an unenclosed HDD???...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...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 (even with the HDD out of the box and disconnected...oily hands d00d!)

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

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