On 7/20/08, Anthony Farr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My hard drive has the death clicks. Previously I had a couple of noisy > (clattery) startups but it has run quietly so I've just left it on full ... > Should I leave it on despite the clicks? I worry that if I shut down it > won't reboot. It's Win XP Home.
Definitely get the external drive and start backing it up now. If you do need to shut it down, you may be able to recover the files off of the drive by putting the drive into an external enclosure, and putting the enclosure in the freezer. A USB cable will route out through the freezer's door seal quite nicely. :-) I'm not sure what cloning software exists for XP, though I bet someone else on the list does. -Mat -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
