Shutdown process? Hard Drive?

Yo, now that i nabbed me an 80G Toshiba,
(which works perfectly fine by the way)

I was wondering peoples:

Is there a particular shut down process I need to do,
in order to not fukk up my hard drive?

obviously, while it's 'writing' i won't shutdown.
anything else?

yea,,i was kinda wondering that too....i dont have my drive yet, but it still feels wrong just suddenly powering down,,,,

I think the only time the Hard Drive is in action is when loading or saving. Also, Hard Drives are built to be fine if the power suddenly goes out, aside from loosing any unsaved data you won't hurt your hard drive by suddenly turning it off.