That ominous clicking noise is the drive
repeating a "seek to spindle" as the firmware
tries to recover from its inability to locate
a cylinder.
SecretMethod70: the life of most hard drives
(in my experience) is greater than the useful
life of the PC. That is, for practical purposes,
they don't fail.
However, because any of us could be the
unlucky one-in-a-million: Backup, Backup,
Backup. DVD writers are cheap and easy.
Which reminds me I should go scan the
Titty Board now...
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