| That ominous clicking noise is the driverepeating 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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