Mat Maessen wrote: > 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.
Norton Ghost http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost Acronis True Image http://www.acronis.com/ There are probably others. But, like Bill said, start copying your data files to another drive now. Re-installing the O.S. and your apps after a drive failure is a pain in the butt, but losing your data files really sucks. I have two hard drives on my computer and one holds the O.S. *only*. And I back it up with Norton Ghost once a week. I keep my data mirrored on an external drive. -- 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.
