Anthony, Are you 100% certain it is the hard drive that is producing these clicks? May be it is one of the fans?
I should also mention, that for the future, you'd consider portable applications. My WinXP uses all together 2.1 Gb of space with the programs that I cannot use in portable mode. The rest (few GB) are on the other drive and they are portable, so that I can easily backup them just as a bunch of files. Just my cents... On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 9:07 PM, 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 > time. Today the clicking has become almost constant. What do I need to do > or get (apart from a replacement HD) to "clone" or "ghost" the OS and > software over to another drive? I want to avoid a clean install because of > the enormous number of updates between the build version of XP that I have > on my backup discs, and SP3. I also want to avoid having to reinstall and > configure my other software. > > Should I leave it on despite the clicks? I worry that if I shut down it > won't reboot. It's Win XP Home. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- Boris -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
